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DeNora's published work has had a major impact on the field. The thirteen essays in this volume, published between 1986 and 2007, trace the development of her work from its early concern with musical meaning, historical ethnography and the 'everyday' perspective, to its current focus on music in action. The essays are set in a multi-disciplinary co
List of contents
Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Structure, chaos and emancipation: Adorno's philosophy of modern music and post-war avant garde; How is extra-musical meaning possible? Music as a place and space for 'work'; Deconstructing periodization: sociological methods and historical ethnography in late 18th-century Vienna; The musical composition of social reality? Music, action and reflexivity; The biology lessons of opera buffa: gender, nature, and bourgeois society on Mozart’s buffa stage; Music and erotic agency - sonic resources and social-sexual action; The concerto and society; Music as agency in Beethoven's Vienna; The pebble in the pond: musicing, therapy, community; Health and music in everyday life - a theory of practice; Evidence and effectiveness in music therapy: problems, power, possibilities and performances in health contexts; Postlude: two or more forms of music; Name index.
Summary
DeNora's published work has had a major impact on the field. The thirteen essays in this volume, published between 1986 and 2007, trace the development of her work from its early concern with musical meaning, historical ethnography and the 'everyday' perspective, to its current focus on music in action. The essays are set in a multi-disciplinary co
