Music as Social Life by Thomas Turino

Music as Social Life by Thomas Turino

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Music as Social Life by Thomas Turino

People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate weddings, inspire political movements, and lull babies to sleep. This title explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the center of our profound personal and social experiences.
"Politically and musically passionate, intellectually sophisticated, and thought-provoking - this is a brave and extremely original book, one that will play a role in this century akin to such seminal works as The Anthropology of Music and How Musical Is Man?" - Anthony Seeger, University of California, Los Angeles"
Thomas Turino is professor of musicology and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Music in the Andes: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture; Moving Away from Silence: Music of the Peruvian Altiplano and the Experience of Urban Migration; and Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe.
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ISBN 13 9780226816982
ISBN 10 0226816982
Title Music as Social Life
Author Thomas Turino
Series Chicago Studies In Ethnomusicology Cse
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Year published 2008-09-01
Number of pages 280
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