The Oxford handbook of music making and leisure /

The Oxford handbook of music making and leisure / Handbook of music making and leisure Music making and leisure edited by Roger Mantie and Gareth Dylan Smith. - xviii, 672 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm

Oxford handbooks series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Music has been a vital part of leisure activity across time and cultures. Contemporary commodification, commercialisation, and consumerism, however, have created a chasm between conceptualisations of music making and numerous realities in our world. From a broad range of perspectives and approaches, this handbook explores avocational involvement with music (i.e., amateur, recreation) as an integral part of the human condition. The chapters in this handbook present a myriad of ways for reconsidering-refocusing attention on-the rich, exciting, and emotionally charged ways in which people of all ages make time for making music through music learning and participation.

Specialized.

9780190244705 (hbk.) : £97.00


Music as recreation.
Music--Social aspects.
Music.
Music.

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