The Accessibility of Music
Participation, Reception, and Contact
- Author: Jochen Eisentraut, University of Wales, Bangor
- Date Published: December 2012
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from July 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107024830
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Questions of musical accessibility are relevant to most musical contexts but what does this term mean, how do we make contact with music and how do we decide what music to listen to? In The Accessibility of Music Jochen Eisentraut argues that musical judgements are often based upon implicit attitudes to accessibility, which need to be identified and exposed. Surveying a range of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, aesthetics and cultural theory, Eisentraut investigates how and why music becomes accessible and the impact of accessibility on musical and social hierarchies. The book is structured around three major case studies: punk vs progressive rock, Vaughan Williams and his ideas on art and folk music, and Brazilian samba, both in situ and in a global context. These are used to reveal aspects of musical accessibility at work and serve as a springboard for discussions that challenge accepted ideas of musical value and meaning.
Read more- Opens up an academic discourse on ideas of musical accessibility and provides readers with concepts to apply in the many musical contexts where accessibility is at issue
- Structured around three engaging and contrasting case studies: punk vs progressive rock, Vaughan Williams' ideas on folk music, and Brazilian samba
- Provides the reader with rich and lively examples and an original approach
- Encourages the reader to re-evaluate ideas about music reception, aesthetics and participation by challenging widely held beliefs about musical value and meaning and contributing to the debate on the situation of Western art music
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- Date Published: December 2012
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107024830
- length: 336 pages
- dimensions: 253 x 181 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.78kg
- contains: 3 tables
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from July 2023
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. An Outline Topography of Musical Accessibility:
1. What is musical accessibility?
2. Society, atonality, psychology
Part II. Accessibility Discourse in Rock, and Cultural Change: Case study 1
3. 'Prog' rock/punk rock – sophistication, directness and shock
4. Zeitgeist – accessibility in flux
Part III. A Valiant Failure? New Art Music and the People: Case study 2
5. Vaughan Williams' National Music in context
6. Art music, vernacular music and accessibility
Part IV. Accessibility, Identity and Social Action: Case study 3a
7. Accessibility in action – Bahia, Brazil
Case study 3b
8. Samba in Wales – how is adopted music accessible?
Part V. Themes:
9. Some key concepts
Postscript
Glossary of neologisms.
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