Music As Social Life - The Politics of Participation

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Turino is professor of musicology and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Music in the Andes: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture ; Moving Away from Silence: Music of the Peruvian Altiplano and the Experience of Urban Migration ; and Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe . Klappentext People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate weddings, inspire political movements, and lull babies to sleep. This title explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the center of our profound personal and social experiences. Zusammenfassung People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions! reach out to the divine! woo lovers! celebrate weddings! inspire political movements! and lull babies to sleep. This title explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the center of our profound personal and social experiences.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Turino
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2008
• EAN: 9780226816982
• ISBN: 978-0-226-81698-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE (CHUP); Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music