Music

Why It Matters
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5095-4240-6
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 124 mm x 193 mm, Gewicht: 227 g

As countries went into lockdown in 2020, people turned to music for comfort and solidarity. Neighbours sang to each other from their balconies; people participated in online music sessions that created an experience of socially distanced togetherness.

Nicholas Cook argues that the value of music goes far beyond simple enjoyment. Music can enhance well-being, interpersonal relationships, cultural tolerance, and civil cohesion. At the same time, music can be a tool of persuasion or ideology. Thinking about music helps bring into focus the values that are mobilised in today’s culture wars. Making music together builds relationships of interdependence and trust: rather than escapism, it offers a blueprint for a community of mutual obligation and interdependence.

Music: Why It Matters is for anyone who loves playing, listening to, or thinking about music, as well as those pursuing it as a career.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

or maybe it doesn’t?

music for good or ill

ideology in disguise

music, race, colonialism

after BLM

music and asocial individualism

music, nostalgia, delusion

music and administered society

musical togetherness

music, covid, ethics

pandemic intimacy

Notes

Further Reading

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Cook is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge.