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Sounds, Societies, Significations: Numanistic Approaches to Music

Sounds, Societies, Significations: Numanistic Approaches to Music

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Series: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress, Book 2

AnthropologyGeneral MusicTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 3319836528
ISBN13: 9783319836522
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 13 2018
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well frequented in musicology. As readers will see, music has many roles to play in society. Music can be a generator of social phenomena, or a result of them; it can enhance or activate social actions, or simply co-habit with them. Above all, music has a stable position within society, in that it actively participates in it. Music can either describe or prescribe social aspects; musicians may have a certain position/role in society (e.g., the popstar as fashion leader, spokesman for political issues, etc.). Depending on the type of society, music may have a certain meaning or function (music does not mean the same thing everywhere in the world). Lastly, music can define a society, and it is not uncommon for it to best define a particular historical moment.

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