1st Edition
Professional Music-Making in London Ethnography and Experience
By Stephen Cottrell
Copyright 2004
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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Professional Music-Making in London is an engaging yet innovative study which examines the lives and work of Western art musicians from an ethnographic perspective. Drawing in part on his own professional experience, Stephen Cottrell considers to what extent musicians in Western society conform to Alan Merriam's paradigmatic assessment of them as having low status yet high respect, as well as... Read more
Preface, 1. Points of Departure, 2. Musicality and Individuality, 3. Self-Conception and Individual Identity: the Deputy System, 4. Musicianship, Small Ensembles, and the Social Self, 5. Orchestras, the Self, and Creativity in Musical Performance, 6. Myth and Humour, 7. The Performance Event: Ritual, Theatre, Play, 8. … da capo al fine …, Appendix, Bibliography, Index
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Cottrell, Stephen
