The Christopher Small Reader (Music / Culture) - Hardcover

Small, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819576395 ISBN 13: 9780819576392

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2016

Synopsis

The Christopher Small Reader is the fourth and final book in Christopher Small's legacy as a composer, pianist, teacher, friend, provocateur, and influential outsider in classical music studies. It is at once a compendium of, a complement to, and an important addition to Small's prior books: Musicking; Music, Society, Education; and Music of the Common Tongue. The Christopher Small Reader brings previously published work, some of it available in disparate locations, together with key excerpts from his three books, and other writings that remained unpublished at his passing in 2011, making available ideas that were not included in the earlier books and presenting an overview of his thought over the course of his life. The collection is a fitting capstone, providing rich insights into Small's understanding of musicking as a crucial way of relating to the world.

Hardcover is un-jacketed.

About this title

About the Author

CHRISTOPHER SMALL (1927–;2011) was a senior lecturer at Ealing College of Higher Education in London until 1986 and lived in Sitges, Spain, until his death. ROBERT WALSER is a professor of music at Case Western Reserve University, author of Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music, and editor of Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History.

Review

"Here, you might think, are a few simple ideas, repeated many times. But they go deep, and seem simple only because we've gotten used to them. They can illuminate every corner of art, and our lives."―Greg Sandow, The Juilliard School

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0819576395
• ISBN 13: 9780819576392
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Walser Robert