SHIFTING SOUNDS: Music as a ritual of transformation
Journal: Victoria University Research Repository (Victoria University)
Year: 2010

iii This project explores music performance as a ritual, arguing that its performative form reflects and reinforces a particular worldview and its concomitant social structures and relations. It proposes a definition of a standard Western form of music performance, identifying it to be based on a duality of an active performer and passive audience, and suggests ways in which this form sponsors ‘everyday ’ social structures and relations, emphasizing rationality and individuality. It follows this