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- Music Talent and Performance : Conservatory Cultural System
- Publication Name
- Music Talent & Performance
- Title
- Music Talent & Performance
- Subtitle
- Conservatory Cultural System
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1566398916
- EAN
- 9781566398916
- ISBN
- 9781566398916
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Genre
- Music, Social Science
- Topic
- Philosophy & Social Aspects, Sociology / General, Instruction & Study / General, General
- Release Date
- 26/04/2001
- Release Year
- 2001
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 7.1 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Features
- Reprint
- Number of Pages
- 216 Pages
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A provocative, perceptive study of the cultural dynamics of classical music in American society, Music, Talent, and Performance describes music as a metaphor of the society in which it takes place.Author Henry Kingbury, a conservatory-trained pianist and music educator turned anthropologist forgoes the traditional ethnomusicologist approach of looking at a non-Western musical culture to focus on the "field" of an American conservatory. The result is a penetrating look at the distinction between teaching music and the nurturing of musicality. Kingsbury offers an innovative anthropological analysis of the western notion of "talent" and its cultural character, noting that many non-western societies have no such concept. Furthermore, he examines various contexts in which music is produced, experienced, and evaluated. His discussion includes the dynamics of orchestra rehearsals in the conservatory, "master class" lessons with a distinguished performer-pedagogue, the ritual characteristics of solo recitals, and an interpretive analysis of stage fright.Ultimately, Kingsbury argues that music "is highly shifting and indeterminate in meaning," a concept that has important implications for all interpreters of culture and for the artists themselves.
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Publisher
Temple University Press
ISBN-10
1566398916
ISBN-13
9781566398916
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Book Title
Music Talent and Performance : Conservatory Cultural System
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Philosophy & Social Aspects, Sociology / General, Instruction & Study / General, General
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Music, Social Science
Number of Pages
216 Pages
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Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
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Ml3798
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Reprint
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"[This] is more than a mere ethnography of a specialized institution... it goes beyond an examination of social organization and music, delving into the semiotics of esthetics and politics. Even more than that, it raises some basic questions of methodology.... Kingsbury succeeds in expanding the reader's perceptions of music and culture while providing a tantalizing glimpse of one essential type of musical institution found in American society." --Laurence D. Loeb, American Anthropologist "Kingsbury has created an enjoyable and enlightening work. Music, Talent, and Performance is liberally spiced with anecdotes and examples that are pertinent to the points being made and that enhance the human interest and flow of the text as well.... Moreover, the greatest value of this book lies in the fact that it directs all of us, as teachers and students, to examine our own music education systems so that we can understand better the sociocultural implications of the circumstances and contexts in which we and our students are living, working, and learning." --Paul Haack, Music Educator's Journal "The efforts ethnomusicologists have expended in defining our field as the study of all music from the perspectives of cultural anthropology is inversely proportional to our effort to apply these perspectives to Western classical music. If this book did little else but fill this gap between theory and practice, it would be welcome; fortunately, it does much more... [This] account is richly textured, perspicacious, well written, and full of dry wit. Its pleasures extend beyond the 'local knowledge' they portray to provide a model style of 'music as a cultural system'." --Timothy Rice, American Ethnologist, "[This] is more than a mere ethnography of a specialized institution... it goes beyond an examination of social organization and music, delving into the semiotics of esthetics and politics. Even more than that, it raises some basic questions of methodology.... Kingsbury succeeds in expanding the reader's perceptions of music and culture while providing a tantalizing glimpse of one essential type of musical institution found in American society." -Laurence D. Loeb, American Anthropologist"Kingsbury has created an enjoyable and enlightening work. Music, Talent, and Performance is liberally spiced with anecdotes and examples that are pertinent to the points being made and that enhance the human interest and flow of the text as well.... Moreover, the greatest value of this book lies in the fact that it directs all of us, as teachers and students, to examine our own music education systems so that we can understand better the sociocultural implications of the circumstances and contexts in which we and our students are living, working, and learning." -Paul Haack, Music Educator's Journal"The efforts ethnomusicologists have expended in defining our field as the study of all music from the perspectives of cultural anthropology is inversely proportional to our effort to apply these perspectives to Western classical music. If this book did little else but fill this gap between theory and practice, it would be welcome; fortunately, it does much more... [This] account is richly textured, perspicacious, well written, and full of dry wit. Its pleasures extend beyond the 'local knowledge' they portray to provide a model style of 'music as a cultural system'." -Timothy Rice, American Ethnologist
Table of Content
CONTENTS Acknowledgments 1. Social Context and Absolute Music 2. The Conservatory 3. Cream Rises 4. Lessons with the Master 5. A Song in a Strange Land 6. A Cultural System Notes References Cited Index
Copyright Date
2001
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87-010092
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