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Music making and civic imagination : a holistic philosophy / Dave Camlin.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Camlin, Dave, author.
Series:
ISSN
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Music trade--Vocational guidance.
Music trade.
Sound recording industry--Vocational guidance.
Sound recording industry.
Popular music--Writing and publishing.
Popular music.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (208 pages)
Place of Publication:
Bristol, England : Intellect, [2023]
Summary:
This book explores the idea of music making (musicing) - the 'performance' of human relationships through music - as a resource for imagining possible futures. Through practical examples, it highlights the value of musicing as a resource for human evolution and sustainable development, through the power of human musical connection. 10 b/w illus.
Contents:
Intro
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
PART 1 INTRODUCTION
1. Music in an Uncertain World
An uncertain future
The value of musicing
Hysteresis
Changing value of music
Key themes
Musicing, musicking, 'musicians' and musician-researchers
Musician-as-researcher
Being human
Diffraction/waveform interference
Terrapolis
Bumps in the road
Inequalities of cultural access
Devaluation of music
Summary
Who is this book for?
Structure and contents
2. Libraries Gave Us Power
This is my truth …
Sage Gateshead and beyond
Praxis
Thinking about music
PART 2 THINKING ABOUT MUSIC
3. Music as a Complex Adaptive System
600+ Mechanisms
Complex adaptive systems (CAS)
Music as a polyvalent system
The advocacy trap
All roads lead to complexity
Music as gestalt
Music in human evolution
Music as communicative medium
Entrainment
Communicative musicality
What's love got to do with it?
What is love anyway?
The limbic system
Interpersonal neurobiology
Feeling felt
What's music got to do with it?
Agential realism
Entanglement and intra-action
Diffraction
Apparatus
The aesthetic 'cut'
Music as a vitality
'Affect' attunement
Conclusion
4. Performing Works, Performing Relationships
Background
Sage Gateshead
Music in three dimensions
Dimensions
Musical dimensions
Aesthetic - The performance of musical 'Works'
Assumptions
Reflective questions
Participatory - The 'Performance' of relationships
Musical continuum
Performance-as-participation
Participation-as-performance
Paramusical dimension
Holistic
Holistic assumptions
Implications.
Holistic philosophy of music
Quality is contingent
Dialogue
Dissensus
Epistemology
5. Music, Politics and Society
Honourable and dishonourable traditions
The 'polis'
Bonding and bridging social capital
Musical citizens
Music and the family
Music and the community
Limits of human cooperation
Music and the people
Music and the nation-state
Music and national identity
Estonian singing revolution
Music as a national political resource
Injustice and the difference principle
Vigilance
Rational communities of music
Doxa
Intervention
The community of those who have nothing in common
Addressing cultural inequalities
Application of knowledge
The word 'cope' and the word 'change'
6. Music Making and Civic Imagination
Citizens of the planet
Cosmopolitanism
Critics of cosmopolitanism
Post-nationalism
Terrapolitanism
What is civic imagination?
Dialects of civic imagination
Disavowal of politics
Sovereignty of the states
European project as civic imagination
Music making and civic imagination
Music and the dialects of civic imagination
Disavowal of politics through artistic expression
Vigilance as qualifier
Music's floating intentionality
Mobilization of terrapolitan identity
Intertextuality
Terrapolitanism is not a competition
The performance of values
Nationalist/capitalist values
Humanist values
Performing love
Performing reciprocity
Performing justice
Performance of virtue
Problems of humanism
Musicing in a post-human world
Musical citizens of the planet
Music and the universe next door
Practical applications
PART 3 PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
7. This Musician
Socially engaged student performances at Sage Gateshead
Example 1: We are who we can be.
Example 2: Big about Corby
Example 3: Fram fest
Example 4: Disability dilemmas
Assessing quality
Student encounters with participatory music at the Royal College of Music
Participatory projects
This place
These people
8. Musician Education
What are we educating musicians for?
What is music for?
Portfolio careers in music
Skills, attributes and values
Authenticity
Diffractive pedagogy
Organizational dynamics
Situational music education pedagogy
Situational leadership
Limitations
Conclusions
References
Index
Back Cover.
Notes:
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781789388039
1789388031
9781789388046
178938804X
OCLC:
1393306058

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