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Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Thomas Turino
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Description for Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Paperback. People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate weddings, inspire political movements, and lull babies to sleep. This title explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the center of our profound personal and social experiences. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 halftones, 2 tables, 1 compact disc. BIC Classification: AV; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412.
People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate weddings, inspire political movements, and lull babies to sleep. In "Music as Social Life", Thomas Turino explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the center of our most profound personal and social experiences.Turino begins by developing tools to think about the special properties of music and dance that make them fundamental resources for connecting with our own lives, our communities, and the environment. These concepts are then put into practice as he ... Read more
People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate weddings, inspire political movements, and lull babies to sleep. In "Music as Social Life", Thomas Turino explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the center of our most profound personal and social experiences.Turino begins by developing tools to think about the special properties of music and dance that make them fundamental resources for connecting with our own lives, our communities, and the environment. These concepts are then put into practice as he ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
413g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226816982
SKU
V9780226816982
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Ref
99-39
About Thomas Turino
Thomas Turino is professor of musicology and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Music in the Andes: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture; Moving Away from Silence: Music of the Peruvian Altiplano and the Experience of Urban Migration; and Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe.
Reviews for Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
"Politically and musically passionate, intellectually sophisticated, and thought-provoking - this is a brave and extremely original book, one that will play a role in this century akin to such seminal works as The Anthropology of Music and How Musical Is Man?" - Anthony Seeger, University of California, Los Angeles"