Music, Society, Education by Christopher Small

Music, Society, Education by Christopher Small

Cited by Soundpost as remarkable and revolutionary upon its publication in 1977, Music, Society, Education has become a classic in the study of music as a social force. Christopher Small sets out to examine the social implications of Western classical music, effects that until recently have been largely ignored or dismissed by most musicologists. He strives to view the Western musical tradition through the mirror of these other musics Balinese and African] as it were from the outside, and in so doing to learn something of the inner unspoken nature of Western culture as a whole.

As series co-editor Robert Walser writes, By pointing to the complicity of Western culture with Western imperialism, Small challenges us to create a future that is more humane than the past. And by writing a book that enables us to rethink so fundamentally our involvements with music, he teaches us how we might get there.

CHRISTOPHER SMALL (1927-2011) was a senior lecturer at Ealing College of Higher Education in London until 1986 and lived in Sitges, Spain, until his death. ROBERT WALSER is a professor of music at Case Western Reserve University, author of Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music, and editor of Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History.

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ISBN 13	9780714535302
ISBN 10	0714535303
Title	Music, Society, Education
Author	Christopher Small
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Calder Publications
Year published	1977-07-01
Number of pages	234
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