Music -- Performance

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The overriding aim of this volume — whether the subject is vocal ornamentation in 19th-century opera or the collective improvisation of the Grateful Dead — is to give recognition to performance as the core of musical culture. This collection brings together renowned scholars fro…

"The conventional way of understanding what musicians do as performers is to treat them as producers of sound; some even argue that it is unnecessary to see musicians in performance as long as one can hear them. But musical performance, counters Philip Auslander, is also a socia…