The Oxford handbook of music making and leisure

edited by Roger Mantie and Gareth Dylan Smith.
Additional titles:
  • Music making and leisure
    • Contributor:
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Publication:
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
    Physical Description:
    xviii, 672 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

    Availability

    Charles Library - Stacks (4th floor)

    Call Number Description Type Availability
    ML3916 .O97 2017

    Details

    Series Title:
    • [Oxford handbooks]
    • Oxford handbooks
    Note:
    Series statement from book jacket.
    Bibliography:
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents:
    Relationships to and with music -- Involvement and meaning -- Scenes, spaces, and places -- On the diversity of music making and leisure.
    Summary:
    "Music has been a vital part of leisure activity across time and cultures. Contemporary commodification, commercialization, and consumerism, however, have created a chasm between conceptualizations of music making and numerous realities in our world. From a broad range of perspectives and approaches, this handbook explores avocational involvement with music as an integral part of the human condition. The chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure present myriad ways for reconsidering and refocusing attention back on the rich, exciting, and emotionally charged ways in which people of all ages make time for making music. The contexts discussed are broadly Western, including an eclectic variety of voices from scholars across fields and disciplines, framing complex and multifaceted phenomena that may be helpfully, enlighteningly, and perhaps provocatively framed as music making and leisure. This volume may be viewed as an attempt to reclaim music making and leisure as a serious concern for, amongst others, policy makers, scholars, and educators who perhaps risk eliding some or even most of the ways in which music - a vital part of human existence - is integrated into the everyday lives of people. As such, this handbook looks beyond the obvious, asking readers to consider anew, "What might we see when we think of music making as leisure?""--publisher's website
    Subject:
    ISBN:
    • 9780190244705
    • 0190244704
    Other ISBN:
    • 9780190244736
    • 0190244739
    LC Classification:
    ML3916 .O97 2017
    Catalog Record ID:
    991032609739703811
    Language:
    English