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Music and Human Flourishing contains essays by eleven prominent scholars representing the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory. This volume, part of the Humanities and Human Flourishing series, explores a fourth musical activity--the act of music scholarship--and reveals how engagement with the cultural, social, and political practices surrounding music contributes to human flourishing in a way that listening, performing, and even composing alone cannot.
List of contents
- Series Editor's Foreword: "The Humanities and Human Flourishing" by James O. Pawelski
- Introduction: "Music and Human Flourishing" by Anna Harwell Celenza
- Part I: Contemplation
- Chapter 1: Musical Flourishes: Lessons from a Conservatory
- Jonathan Coopersmith
- Chapter 2: Jubilee: The (Positive) Science of Black Music
- Shana Redmond
- Chapter 3: Post-Tonal Music and Well-Being
- Joy H. Calico
- Chapter 4: Can 'Old-Fashioned' Approaches to Listening Contribute to Human Flourishing?
- Michael Beckerman
- Part II: Critique
- Chapter 5: Understanding Music Studies, Well-Being, and the Humanities in Times of Neoliberalism
- Alejandro Madrid
- Chapter 6: The Music Scholar as a Type of Non-Musician
- Todd Decker
- Chapter 7: They Say 'Music Should be Seen but not Heard': Music and Flourishing in the Elite
- Liberal Arts University
- Wendy Heller
- Part III: Communication
- Chapter 8: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Collaboration in Arts and Human Flourishing
- Nancy Yunhwa Rao
- Chapter 9: Rethinking Women's Music-Making through the Lens of Human Flourishing
- Annegret Fauser
- Chapter 10: Playful Transcendence: Paths to Human Flourishing in Black Music Research and Performance
- Melvin L. Butler
- Chapter 11: Music for the Masses: Finding a Balance between Emotional Labor and Human
- Flourishing
- Anna Harwell Celenza
About the author
Anna Harwell Celenza is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, where she holds a joint appointment in The Writing Seminars and at Peabody Conservatory. She is the author of several books, including Jazz Italian Style, from Its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra (2017) and The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin (2019). She has also published eight award-winning children's books, including Bach's Goldberg Variations, Beethoven's Heroic Symphony, and Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite. In 2016, Celenza co-founded Music Policy Forum, a non-profit that advises local governments about how to create sustainable music ecosystems.
