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What Makes Music European - Looking beyond Sound (Hardcover)
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What Makes Music European - Looking beyond Sound (Hardcover)
Series: Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities
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We seldom consider how much we mistakenly presume in hewing to
definitions of music that differ dramatically from the standpoint
of other cultures. In What Makes Music European, Marcello Sorce
Keller examines the limitations of accepted wisdom about the
concept of music in Euro-Western culture. His investigations of the
conclusions reached by music researchers of the past several
decades considerably upsets the concepts relied upon by the
concert-going public. Sorce Keller insightfully asks: Who makes the
music? Should music be original, and how much can it be? Why do
people identify with songs, pieces, styles, and repertoire? Why is
music so ideological? Why do we misunderstand the music of
different times and places, and why do we enjoy doing so? He also
explores the juxtaposition of economy, society, and music making,
as well as the concept of "illegal harmonies." In What Makes Music
European, Sorce Keller addresses the little-discussed matters that
are essential to an understanding of how music intersects with the
life of so many people. Readers are offered an approach for
thinking about music that depends as much on its history as on the
concepts and attitudes of the social sciences. What Makes Music
European concisely demonstrates, to those familiar with Western
music, how peculiar Euro-Western concepts of music appear from a
cross-cultural perspective. At the same time, it encourages
ethnomusicologists to apply their knowledge to Western music and
explain to its public how much of what listeners take for granted
is, at the very least, highly debatable.
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