Music-in-Action: Selected Essays in Sonic Ecology (Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series) - Hardcover

DeNora, Tia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1409419967 ISBN 13: 9781409419969

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

This volume brings together DeNora’s work published between 1986 and 2007. It includes thirteen essays, some of which have had a major impact on the field. The chapters trace the development of her work from its early concern with musical meaning, historical ethnography and the ’everyday’ perspective, to its current focus on music in action. Topics covered include Adorno on Schoenberg and Stravinsky, a theory of music as a space and place for interpretive work, research methods for historical musicology, and the first key statement of her theory of music as an active ingredient in social life. These building blocks are then employed to investigate music and embodied experience, sexuality and gender differentiation, and music’s role as a technology of health. The essays are set in a multi-disciplinary context with an autobiographical introduction.

About this title

About the Author:

Tia DeNora, Professor of Music Sociology, Exeter University, UK

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1409419967
• ISBN 13: 9781409419969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224