Music of the Common Tongue
Title | Music of the Common Tongue PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Small |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 081957225X |
In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in human life the African American tradition, that which stems from the collision between African and European ways of doing music which occurred in the Americas and the Caribbean during and after slavery, is the major western music of the twentieth century. In showing why this is so, the author presents not only an account of African American music from its origins but also a more general consideration of the nature of the music act and of its function in human life. The two streams of discussion occupy alternate chapters so that each casts light on the other. The author offers also an answer to what the Musical Times called the "seldom posed though glaringly obtrusive" question: "why is it that the music of an alienated, oppressed, often persecuted black minority should have made so powerful an impact on the entire industrialized world, whatever the color of its skin or economic status?"
Music of the Common Tongue
Title | Music of the Common Tongue PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Small |
Publisher | Calder Publications Limited |
Pages | 495 |
Release | 1987-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780714540962 |
Music, Society, Education
Title | Music, Society, Education PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Small |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0819572233 |
Cited by Soundpost as "remarkable and revolutionary" upon its publication in 1977, Music, Society, Education has become a classic in the study of music as a social force. Christopher Small sets out to examine the social implications of Western classical music, effects that until recently have been largely ignored or dismissed by most musicologists. He strives to view the Western musical tradition "through the mirror of these other musics [Balinese and African] as it were from the outside, and in so doing to learn something of the inner unspoken nature of Western culture as a whole." As series co-editor Robert Walser writes, "By pointing to the complicity of Western culture with Western imperialism, Small challenges us to create a future that is more humane than the past. And by writing a book that enables us to rethink so fundamentally our involvements with music, he teaches us how we might get there."
The Language of Global Success
Title | The Language of Global Success PDF eBook |
Author | Tsedal Neeley |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2019-11-19 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0691196125 |
"A fascinating examination of how an English-language mandate at a Japanese firm, Rakuten, unfolded over time and how employees reacted to it"--Back of jacket.
Music Studies and Its Moment of Truth: Leading Change through America's Black Music Roots
Title | Music Studies and Its Moment of Truth: Leading Change through America's Black Music Roots PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Sarath |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2023-09-13 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 100380439X |
Music Studies and Its Moment of Truth: Leading Change through America’s Black Music Roots presents a new framework for racial justice discourse in the context of music studies and education. Centering on Black American Music, the book issues challenges to both the conventional music studies paradigm and decades-old reform efforts. While Black American Music ranks high among America’s contributions to world culture, and offers musicians powerful tools for musical practice and understanding, this musical legacy remains remarkably marginalized even in activist conversations. The author argues that this reflects lingering and unexamined racist patterns that persist even among the most fervent voices for anti-racist interventions, and addresses the need for a higher-order activist framework within music studies. Delving further into the transformative changes needed to pursue racial justice, the short pieces collected in this book discuss topics including a shift from multicultural ideology to a transcultural model of musical pluralism, analysis of the multi-tiered nature of musical racism, the whitewashing of music studies activism, K-12 music teacher education as the locus for paradigmatic change and the potential for a transformed model of music studies to catalyze an overarching revolution in creativity and consciousness in both education and society at large. Critiquing the failures of progressive reform efforts and conventional reaction, this book argues that major changes are needed to the discourse on racism in music studies, and envisions new paradigms for the future.
Musicking
Title | Musicking PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Small |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0819572241 |
Extending the inquiry of his early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the heart of traditional studies of Western music by asserting that music is not a thing, but rather an activity. In this new book, Small outlines a theory of what he terms "musicking," a verb that encompasses all musical activity from composing to performing to listening to a Walkman to singing in the shower. Using Gregory Bateson's philosophy of mind and a Geertzian thick description of a typical concert in a typical symphony hall, Small demonstrates how musicking forms a ritual through which all the participants explore and celebrate the relationships that constitute their social identity. This engaging and deftly written trip through the concert hall will have readers rethinking every aspect of their musical worlds.
Suspended God
Title | Suspended God PDF eBook |
Author | Maeve Louise Heaney |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 2022-03-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 056769562X |
Heaney traces the hidden history of music's presence in Christian thought, including its often unrecognized influence on key figures such as von Balthasar, Barth and Bonhoeffer. She uses Lonergan's theological framework to explore musical composition as a theological act, showing why, when and how music is a useful symbolic form. The book introduces eleven ground-breaking theologians, and each chapter offers an entry point into the thought of the theologian being presented through an original piece of music, which can be found on the companion website: https://bloomsbury.pub/suspended-god. Heaney argues that music is a universally important means of making sense of life with which theology needs to engage as a means of expression and of development. Musical composition is presented as an appropriate and even necessary form of doing theology in its quest to engage with the past, mediate truth to the present and tradition it into the future.