The Necessity Of Music
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Author | : Sabby Sagall |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021-10-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137520957 |
This book argues that the need for music, and the ability to produce and enjoy it, is an essential element in human nature. Every society in history has produced some characteristic style of music. Music, like the other arts, tells us truths about the world through its impact on our emotional life. There is a structural correspondence between society and music. The emergence of 'modern art music' and its stylistic changes since the rise of capitalist social relations reflect the development of capitalist society since the decline of European feudalism. The leading composers of the different eras expressed in music the aspirations of the dominant or aspiring social classes. Changes in musical style not only reflect but in turn help to shape changes in society. This book analyses the stylistic changes in music from the emergence of ‘tonality’ in the late seventeenth century until the Second World War.
Author | : Celia Applegate |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2017-05-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1487511604 |
In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather than focus on familiar stories of composers and their work Applegate illuminates the myriad ways in which music is integral to German social life. Musical life reflected the polycentric nature of German social and political life, even while it provided many opportunities to experience what was common among Germans. Musical activities also allowed Germans, whether professional musicians, dedicated amateurs, or simply listeners, to participate in European culture. Applegate’s original and fascinating analysis of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, and military music enables the reader to understand music through the experiences of listeners, performers, and institutions. The Necessity of Music demonstrates that playing, experiencing, and interpreting music was a powerful factor that shaped German collective life.
Author | : Tia DeNora |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2000-06-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521627320 |
The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an influence on character, social structure and action. There have, however, been few attempts to specify this power empirically and to provide theoretically grounded accounts of music's structuring properties in everyday experience. Music in Everyday Life uses a series of ethnographic studies - an aerobics class, karaoke evenings, music therapy sessions and the use of background music in the retail sector - as well as in-depth interviews to show how music is a constitutive feature of human agency. Drawing together concepts from psychology, sociology and socio-linguistics it develops a theory of music's active role in the construction of personal and social life and highlights the aesthetic dimension of social order and organisation in late modern societies.
Author | : Marcel Cobussen |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1409434966 |
It seems self-evident that music plays more than just an aesthetic role in contemporary society. It is thus surprising that the subject of ethics is often neglected in discussions about music. Music and Ethics examines different ways in which music can contribute to theoretical discussions about ethics as well as concrete moral behaviour. Rather than offer a general musico-ethical theory, the book explores ethics as a practical concept, and demonstrates through concrete examples that the relation between music and ethics has never been absent.
Author | : Natalie Sarrazin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2016-06-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781942341703 |
Children are inherently musical. They respond to music and learn through music. Music expresses children's identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture, and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self worth. As professional instructors, childcare workers, or students looking forward to a career working with children, we should continuously search for ways to tap into children's natural reservoir of enthusiasm for singing, moving and experimenting with instruments. But how, you might ask? What music is appropriate for the children I'm working with? How can music help inspire a well-rounded child? How do I reach and teach children musically? Most importantly perhaps, how can I incorporate music into a curriculum that marginalizes the arts?This book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children's lives through play, games, creativity, and movement. Additionally, the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically.
Author | : Raymond MacDonald |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2012-02-09 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199586977 |
Music has a universal and timeless potential to influence how we feel, yet, only recently, have researchers begun to explore and understand the positive effects that music can have on our wellbeing.This book brings together research from a number of disciplines to explore the relationship between music, health and wellbeing.
Author | : Anthony Storr |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1501122096 |
Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should be so. Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, Storr argues that the patterns of music make sense of our inner experience, giving both structure and coherence to our feelings and emotions. It is because music possesses this capacity to restore our sense of personal wholeness in a culture which requires us to separate rational thought from feelings that many people find it so life-enhancing that it justifies existence.
Author | : Eleanor Peters |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2019-08-23 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1787690016 |
Using a critical criminological approach, this book analyses what is deviant and transgressive about music, focusing on three main parts; the concept of 'harmful' or deviant music; the use of music as punishment and the censorship and silencing of music.
Author | : Beckie Karras |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0866566996 |
This enlightening book explores how music motivates, enriches, touches, relaxes, and energizes the elderly in nursing homes. The author examines music therapy in gerontology and provides ideas for activities professionals who want to use music in their nursing home activity programs.
Author | : Stephen Clift |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199688079 |
There is growing interest internationally in the contributions which the creative arts can make to wellbeing and health in both healthcare and community settings. A timely addition to the field, this book discusses the role the creative arts have in addressing some of the most pressing public health challenges faced today. Providing an evidence-base and recommendations for a wide audience, this is an essential resource for anyone involved with this increasingly important component of public health practice.