This book explores historical and philosophical connections between music, leisure, and education. Specifically, it considers how music learning, teaching, and participation can be reconceptualized in terms of leisure. Taking as its starting point "the art of living" and the eth…
"As the book’s title suggests, Music, Leisure, Education explores historical and philosophical connections between music, leisure, and education. Specifically, it considers how music learning, teaching, and participation can be reconceptualized in terms of leisure (scholē), that…
"This book is based on a nine-year study of collegiate a cappella, a socio-musical practice that has exploded on college campuses since the 1990's. Collegiate a cappella is about much more than singing cover songs. It sustains multiple forms of inequality through its practices a…
Intro -- Contents -- Cover -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Staying Musically Active "I just can't ever imagine my life without music" -- 2 The Locus of Enjoyment "I like to be good, but not at the expense of happiness" -- 3 Gender and Sexuality in Collegiate A Cappella "A cappella g…
"This book is based on a nine-year study of collegiate a cappella, a socio-musical practice that has exploded on college campuses since the 1990's. Collegiate a cappella is about much more than singing cover songs. It sustains multiple forms of inequality through its practices a…
"This book is based on a nine-year study of collegiate a cappella, a socio-musical practice that has exploded on college campuses since the 1990's. Collegiate a cappella is about much more than singing cover songs. It sustains multiple forms of inequality through its practices a…
The Oxford handbook of music making and leisure
by Mantie, Roger, Smith, Gareth Dylan
fromOxford Handbooks
« Music has been a vital part of leisure activity across time and cultures. Contemporary commodification, commercialization, and consumerism, however, have created a chasm between conceptualizations of music making and numerous realities in our world. From a broad range of persp…