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The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure
Roger Mantie (Ed.)
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Description for The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure
Hardback. Editor(s): Smith, Gareth Dylan; Mantie, Roger. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 696 pages, 30. BIC Classification: AVA; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 182 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1222.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Oxford Handbooks
Condition
New
Weight
1221g
Number of Pages
694
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190244705
SKU
V9780190244705
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About Roger Mantie (Ed.)
Roger Mantie is Assistant Professor of Music Education at Arizona State University. Gareth Dylan Smith is Facilitator of Online Learning in Music Education at Boston University.
Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure
With this unique and comprehensive volume, Mantie and Smith, both scholars of music education, fill a gap in scholarly considerations of the function of music in leisure activities ... their volume is something to behold ... Highly recommended.
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