Music Talent & Performance [electronic resource] : Conservatory Cultural System

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kingsbury, Henry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservatory.

Ethnomusicology.

Instruction and study.

Music.

Local Subjects:

Conservatory.

Ethnomusicology.

Instruction and study.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.

Summary:

A provocative, perceptive study of the cultural dynamics of classical music in American society, Music, Talent, and Performance describes music as a metaphor of the society in which it takes place.Author Henry Kingbury, a conservatory-trained pianist and music educator turned anthropologist forgoes the traditional ethnomusicologist approach of looking at a non-Western musical culture to focus on the ""field"" of an American conservatory. The result is a penetrating look at the distinction between teaching music and the nurturing of musicality. Kingsbury offers an innovativ

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Social Context and Absolute Music; 2. The Conservatory; 3. Cream Rises; 4. Lessons with the Master; 5. A Song in a Strange Land; 6. A Cultural System; Notes; References Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

813218404