Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (803 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226816982 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Politically and musically passionate, intellectually sophisticated, and thought-provoking - this is a brave and extremely original book, one that will play a role in this century akin to such seminal works as The Anthropology of Music and How Musical Is Man?" - Anthony Seeger, University of California, Los Angeles"
Thomas Turino is professor of musicology and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Music in the Andes: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture; Moving Away from Silence:Music of the Peruvian Altiplano and the Experience of Urban Migration; and Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe.
"If you play music, you need this book" according to J. Willie. This book has clarified my thinking and direction in playing music. If you play popular music, or music you would like to be popular, 'Music as Social Life' by Thomas Turino will do the same for you. It allowed me to understand why I enjoy jamming, dancing teaching and rehearsing more than performing for a nice quiet audience. Yet why, at the same time, I still have an ambivalent desire to make a CD and play for that nice quiet audience.He breaks out of defining music by genres and defines it by fu. Four Stars This is a good book.. TxTeacher said Four Stars. Good read
People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate weddings, inspire political movements, and lull babies to sleep. Wide-ranging, accessible to anyone with an interest in music’s role in society, and accompanied by a compact disc, Music as Social Life is an illuminating initiation into the power of music.. In Music as Social Life, Thomas Turino explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the center of our most profound personal and social experiences. Turino begins by developing tools to think about the special properties of music and dance that make them fundamental resources for connecting with our own lives,