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ISBN 10: B077SMJP4T
ISBN 13: 978-1351151290
Author: Stephen Cottrell
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 being given an unusual degree of licence to deviate from convention. The book draws on a wide variety of approaches from scholars elsewhere: from ethnomusicologists such as Bruno Nettl and Henry Kingsbury, performance theorists such as Richard Schechner and Victor Turner, as well as psychologists such as Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein. This rich intellectual heritage provides the framework for discussion of a variety of themes, including how musicians conceive their self identity and how this is negotiated in the professional musical world; how the deputy system facilitates musical exchange and engenders gift relationships; how humour lubricates social and musical relationships and mitigates the stresses of musicians’ lives; and how the events in which musicians participate can be viewed as quasi-rituals, and thus related to analogous events in non-Western cultures. The focus of this study is on professional music-making in London, one of the world’s busiest centres of musical performance. Yet the issues raised and explored are deeply relevant to other major centres of Western art music, such as New York, Berlin or Sydney. Ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, musicologists, performers, teachers and concert-goers will find this book a stimulating insight into, and investigation of, Western art musicians and their place in today’s world.
Professional Music Making in London 1st Table of contents:
1 Points of Departure
Introduction
Ethnomusicology and Western art music
A community of professional musicians
The native ethnomusicologist
The ethnographic text
2 Musicality and Individuality
Introduction
Musicality and individuality
Conceptualizing sound
3 Self-Conception and Individual Identity: the Deputy System
Introduction
Variety as the spice of life
Deputizing
Economic capital, musical capital, and self-conception
Individual identity and reciprocal obligation
Music as capital and music as coin
4 Musicianship, Small Ensembles, and the Social Self
Introduction
Musicianship
Ensembles and individuals
Recordings
5 Orchestras, the Self, and Creativity in Musical Performance
Introduction
Orchestras and the self
Creativity
6 Myth and Humour
Introduction
Myth
Stereotypes
Humour
Viola jokes
7 The Performance Event: Ritual, Theatre, Play
Introduction
Ritual and ritualizing
The theatre of musical performance
Play
8 … da capo al fine …
Twists in the tale
Limitations of the ethnography
Musicians’ lives and social rank: the urban musician-type
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