Music As Ethics - Stories From Virginia

Music as Ethics offers a comparative ethnography of four musical communities in Virginia: a monastery, an intentional community, the Richmond city jail, and the city of Richmond, VA. While music's relationship to ethical life differs between each community, ethnographic research suggests that music can serve as a means to a more ethical lifestyle.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Conceptual Frame


• Chapter 2: Holy Cross Monastery


• Chapter 3: Twin Oaks Intentional Community


• Chapter 4: Richmond Jail


• Chapter 5: Richmond City


• Chapter 6: Conclusion: Music as Ethics


• Notes


• References


• Index

About the author

Andrew McGraw is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Richmond in Virginia. He has published extensively on music in Southeast Asia, music and ethics, and temporality in Balinese, Javanese, and Cuban musics. In Richmond he facilitates community gamelan and stringband ensembles and a music program in the city jail.

Summary

Music as Ethics offers a comparative ethnography of four musical communities in Virginia: a monastery, an intentional community, the Richmond city jail, and the city of Richmond, VA. While music's relationship to ethical life differs between each community, ethnographic research suggests that music can serve as a means to a more ethical lifestyle.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew McGraw, Andrew (Associate Professor of Music) Mcgraw, Andrew (Associate Professor of Musicuniver Mcgraw
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2023
• EAN: 9780197654880
• ISBN: 978-0-19-765488-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: AMERICAN MUSICSPHERES SERIES
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Easy listening, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / International, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Popular Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Non-Western music: traditional & "classical", Easy listening, MOR music