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In a world facing multiple existential crises, music might be seen as little more than a distraction. However, in this synthesis of ideas developed over a decade, a timely re-appraisal of the potential of musicing for human flourishing is presented, emphasising its role in the history of human evolution alongside its potential as a resource for sustainable development.

A holistic philosophy of music is outlined which recognises the complex web of meaning which spreads across complementary musical dimensions of performance and participation, whilst emphasising the ‘paramusical’ benefits which arise from both. Highlighting the notion that the social bonds which arise from musicing share much of the neurobiological underpinnings of attachment and love, musicing is presented as a resource with the potential for facilitating ethical human connection.

The humanistic values which are thereby materialised during musicing – love, reciprocity and justice – form the experiential grounds for inhabiting alternative social realities. The book addresses how such a holistic philosophy of music might be implemented in practice, drawing on the author’s professional praxis as a performer, educator, community musician, composer and researcher, in particular their experience of musician education at Sage Gateshead, Royal College of Music and Trinity-Laban Conservatoire in the UK.

Foreword

Acknowledgements

PART 1 INTRODUCTION

1. Music in an Uncertain World

- An uncertain future

- The value of musicing

- Hysteresis

- Changing value of music

- Key themes

- Musicing, musicking, ‘musicians’ and musician–researchers

- Musician-as-researcher

- Being human

- Diffraction/waveform interference

- Terrapolis

- Bumps in the road

- Inequalities of cultural access

- Devaluation of music

- Summary

- Who is this book for?

- Structure and contents

2. Libraries Gave Us Power

- This is my truth…

- Sage Gateshead and beyond

- Praxis

- Thinking about music

PART 2 THINKING ABOUT MUSIC

3. Music as a Complex Adaptive System

- 600+ Mechanisms

- Complex adaptive systems (CAS)

- Music as a polyvalent system

- The advocacy trap

- All roads lead to complexity

- Music as gestalt

- Music in human evolution

- Music as communicative medium

- Entrainment

- Communicative musicality

- What’s love got to do with it?

- What is love anyway?

- The limbic system

- Interpersonal neurobiology

- Feeling felt

- What’s music got to do with it?

- Agential realism

- Entanglement and intra-action

- Diffraction

- Apparatus

- The aesthetic ‘cut’

- Music as a vitality

- ‘Affect’ attunement

- Conclusion

4. Performing Works, Performing Relationships

- Background

- Sage Gateshead

- Praxis

- Music in three dimensions

- Dimensions

- Musical dimensions

- Aesthetic – The performance of musical ‘Works’

- Participatory – The ‘Performance’ of relationships

- Musical continuum

- Paramusical dimension

- Assumptions

- Reflective questions

- Holistic

- Holistic assumptions

- Reflective questions

- Implications

- Holistic philosophy of music

- Quality is contingent

- Dialogue

- Dissensus

- Epistemology

- Praxis

- Conclusion

5. Music, Politics and Society

- Honourable and dishonourable traditions

- The ‘polis’

- Bonding and bridging social capital

- Feeling felt

- Musical citizens

- Music and the family

- Music and the community

- Limits of human cooperation

- Music and the people

- Music and the nation-state

- Music and national identity

- Estonian singing revolution

- Music as a national political resource

- Injustice and the difference principle

- Vigilance

- Rational communities of music

- Doxa

- Intervention

- The community of those who have nothing in common

- Addressing cultural inequalities

- Application of knowledge

- The word ‘cope’ and the word ‘change’

6. Music Making and Civic Imagination

- Citizens of the planet 126

- Cosmopolitanism 127

- Critics of cosmopolitanism 128

- Post-nationalism 129

- Terrapolitanism 130

- What is civic imagination? 132

- Dialects of civic imagination 133

- Disavowal of politics 136

- Sovereignty of the states 137

- European project as civic imagination 139

- Music making and civic imagination 141

- Music and the dialects of civic imagination 142

- Disavowal of politics through artistic expression 143

- Vigilance as qualifier 145

- Music’s floating intentionality 146

- Mobilization of terrapolitan identity 147

- Intertextuality 148

- Terrapolitanism is not a competition 149

- The performance of values 151

- Nationalist/capitalist values 152

- Humanist values 152

- Performing love 153

- Performing reciprocity 154

- Performing justice 154

- Performance of virtue 155

- Problems of humanism 156

- Musicing in a post-human world 156

- Musical citizens of the planet 158

- Music and the universe next door 159

- Practical applications 161

PART 3 PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

7. This Musician

- Socially engaged student performances at Sage Gateshead

- Example 1: We are who we can be

- Example 2: Big about Corby

- Example 3: Fram fest

- Example 4: Disability dilemmas

- Assessing quality

- Student encounters with participatory music at the Royal College of Music

- Participatory projects

- This place

- These people

8. Musician Education

- What are we educating musicians for?

- What is music for?

- Portfolio careers in music

- Praxis

- Skills, attributes and values

- Authenticity

- Diffractive pedagogy

- Organizational dynamics

- Situational music education pedagogy

- Situational leadership

- Limitations

- Conclusions

References

Index

Sujets

Musique

Philosophie

Esthétique et philosophie de l'art

Music

History

General

General officer

Multiple signal classification

Philosophy

EDUCATION

Social Aspects

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Publié par	Intellect Books
Date de parution	08 août 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781789388046
Langue	English

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Music Making and Civic Imagination
Music, Community, and Education
Series Editor: Lee Higgins
Music, Community, and Education is a focused monograph series that provides scholars and researchers with a platform for disseminating conceptually rich and empirically distinguished work that explores questions related to the impact music-making can have on those that participate and the cultural, political, and economic context through which it happens. To be accepted for publication, manuscripts must be judged as providing significant contributions to advancing cutting-edge research, promoting a wider discourse, and promoting the application of research and scholarship to policies and practices that improve our understanding of music, community and education. Monographs are intended to address their topic without being unduly narrow. They should be comprehensible to and engaging for, a general readership whilst valuable for scholars with shared research interests. Each book is expected to be written in a single voice even when it involves a collaboration between multiple scholars. Book proposals are welcome in any of the following areas that address questions relating to music-making; inclusivity, participation, social justice, democracy, power, community and pedagogy.
Building Community Choirs in the Twenty-First Century: Re-imagining Identity through Singing in Northern Ireland , by Sarah Jane Gibson (2023)
Music Making and Civic Imagination
A Holistic Philosophy

David A. Camlin
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Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
PART 1 INTRODUCTION
1. Music in an Uncertain World
An uncertain future
The value of musicing
Hysteresis
Changing value of music
Key themes
Musicing, musicking, musicians and musician-researchers
Musician-as-researcher
Being human
Diffraction/waveform interference
Terrapolis
Bumps in the road
Inequalities of cultural access
Devaluation of music
Summary
Who is this book for?
Structure and contents
2. Libraries Gave Us Power
This is my truth
Sage Gateshead and beyond
Praxis
Thinking about music
PART 2 THINKING ABOUT MUSIC
3. Music as a Complex Adaptive System
600+ Mechanisms
Complex adaptive systems (CAS)
Music as a polyvalent system
The advocacy trap
All roads lead to complexity
Music as gestalt
Music in human evolution
Music as communicative medium
Entrainment
Communicative musicality
What's love got to do with it?
What is love anyway?
The limbic system
Interpersonal neurobiology
Feeling felt
What's music got to do with it?
Agential realism
Entanglement and intra-action
Diffraction
Apparatus
The aesthetic cut
Music as a vitality
Affect attunement
Conclusion
4. Performing Works, Performing Relationships
Background
Sage Gateshead
Praxis
Music in three dimensions
Dimensions
Musical dimensions
Aesthetic - The performance of musical Works
Assumptions
Reflective questions
Participatory - The Performance of relationships
Assumptions
Reflective questions
Musical continuum
Performance-as-participation
Participation-as-performance
Paramusical dimension
Assumptions
Reflective questions
Holistic
Holistic assumptions
Reflective questions
Implications
Holistic philosophy of music
Quality is contingent
Dialogue
Dissensus
Epistemology
Praxis
Conclusion
5. Music, Politics and Society
Honourable and dishonourable traditions
The polis
Bonding and bridging social capital
Feeling felt
Musical citizens
Music and the family
Music and the community
Limits of human cooperation
Music and the people
Music and the nation-state
Music and national identity
Estonian singing revolution
Music as a national political resource
Injustice and the difference principle
Vigilance
Rational communities of music
Doxa
Intervention
The community of those who have nothing in common
Addressing cultural inequalities
Application of knowledge
The word cope and the word change
6. Music Making and Civic Imagination
Citizens of the planet
Cosmopolitanism
Critics of cosmopolitanism
Post-nationalism
Terrapolitanism
What is civic imagination?
Dialects of civic imagination
Disavowal of politics
Sovereignty of the states
European project as civic imagination
Music making and civic imagination
Music and the dialects of civic imagination
Disavowal of politics through artistic expression
Vigilance as qualifier
Music's floating intentionality
Mobilization of terrapolitan identity
Intertextuality
Terrapolitanism is not a competition
The performance of values
Nationalist/capitalist values
Humanist values
Performing love
Performing reciprocity
Performing justice
Performance of virtue
Problems of humanism
Musicing in a post-human world
Musical citizens of the planet
Music and the universe next door
Practical applications
PART 3 PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
7. This Musician
Socially engaged student performances at Sage Gateshead
Example 1: We are who we can be
Example 2: Big about Corby
Example 3: Fram fest
Example 4: Disability dilemmas
Assessing quality
Student encounters with participatory music at the Royal College of Music
Participatory projects
This place
These people
8. Musician Education
What are we educating musicians for?
What is music for?
Portfolio careers in music
Praxis
Skills, attributes and values
Authenticity
Diffractive pedagogy
Organizational dynamics
Situational music education pedagogy
Situational leadership
Limitations
Conclusions
References
Index
Foreword
The world needs this book right now. The messages it contains speak so poignantly to our current moment in time. As our lives become increasingly shaped by war and conflict, escalating geopolitical and economic uncertainty, widening social inequities, and accelerating climate change, many of us musicians, educators and scholars have been grappling with how to respond. In this book, Dave Camlin gives us a gift, a generous invitation to deeply consider a far more expansive view of musicing, its interconnected relationship with the world, and how it might allow us to radically reimagine and respond to these existential crises.
For years I have been yearning for a book on music like Dave has written here. The kind of book that tackles the very questions I have personally been grappling with as I explore the role of music in complex contexts of social inequity and injustice. The kind that addresses the pressing concerns of many arts organisations, music learning institutions, governments, and funders I have worked with, keen to harness the power of music in their local communities. The kind that jolts our field into new lines of questions, considerations, enquiries, and modes of being in the world. The kind that departs from the well-worn circular, and often siloed, tropes about music's capacity to ‘heal the world.’ The kind that not only poses the big and challenging questions, but offers multiple possible answers, and pathways for meaningfully developing our own responses in our own contexts.
At its heart, Dave's book offers a profoundly holistic view of music, conceptualising it as a complex adaptive system. Resisting old reductionist conceptualisations of musicing that explain its significance in dissected slices, he presents a fundamental departure from such narrow ways of thinking and fully embraces complexity theory. By assembling a staggering array of literature, theoretical ideas, conceptual frameworks, intellectual apparatuses, and practical musicing examples, Dave challenges us to think about music in the most holistic sense possible. To do this, he travels across many borders of intellectual and creative possibility from human evolution to quantum theory. While these fields may seem impenetrable to some musicians, Dave traverses these fields of ideas in such a grounded and relatable way that always comes back to the act of musicing. This will no doubt spark curiosity, wonder, awe and imagination in all who read it. Moreover, he weaves these ideas together in such a dynamic, interconnected and relational way, I am sure it will engender fruitful dialogue across many different cultural contexts and worldviews.
This book is a must-read for any socially-engaged, ethically-minded musician, focused on deepening, questioning, and enhancing their praxis, wherever they may be on their journey. Likewise, it is a must-read for those working in music higher education institutions, such as the one I have worked in for years, especially as we increasingly turn our attention to how we support emerging musicians to become more socially and ethically aware in their work. Indeed, every music training institution and every music research entity would do themselves a favour by setting this book on their annua