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The Oxford handbook of music making and leisure / edited by Roger Mantie and Gareth Dylan Smith.

Contributor(s): Mantie, Roger [editor.] | Smith, Gareth Dylan [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: xviii, 672 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780190244705 (hbk.) :Other title: Handbook of music making and leisure | Music making and leisureSubject(s): Music as recreation | Music -- Social aspects | Music | MusicDDC classification: 306.4'842 Summary: 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.
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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.

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