Music: Why It Matters - Softcover

Cook, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150954240X ISBN 13: 9781509542406

Verlag: Polity, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Polity
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 150954240X
• ISBN 13: 9781509542406
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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