The accessibility of music participation, reception, and contact
By: Jochen Eisentraut
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9781107024830
Subjects: Social aspects; Music; Philosophy and aesthetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An outline topography of musical accessibility. What is musical accessibility? ; Society, atonality, psychology; title: Accessibility discourse in rock, and cultural change. Case study 1 : 'Prog' rock/punk rock : sophistication, directness and shock ; Zeitgeist : accessibility in flux; title: A valiant failure? : new art music and the people. Case study 2 : Vaughan Williams' national music in context ; Art music, vernacular music and accessibility; title: Accessibility, identity and social action. Case study 3a : Accessibility in action : Bahia, Brazil ; 3b : Samba in Wales : how is adopted music accessible?; title: Part five. Themes. Some key concepts.