What makes music European
Subtitle: looking beyond sound
By: Marcello Sorce Keller
Series: Europea : ethnomusicologies and modernities -- 12; Europea -- no. 12.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780810876712; 9780810876736
Subjects: History and criticism; Music; Philosophy and aesthetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Who makes the music (and why we all are composers). Composing as we think of it, composing as we do it ; Oral transmission (more than playing or singing by ear) ; Improvisation and the collective dimension ; when "we" get the music; title: Originality, identity, ideology and taste. Should music be original, how much can it be ; Why people identify of organized sound ; Why is music so ideological ; How can we face different musics ; Why we misunderstand the music of all times and places and do we much enjoy doing so ; How much of a good thing ; Musical gardens and greenhouses vs. woods and prairies; title: The tangible aspects of music-making. The social value of music ; Musical value and its locations.