Chapter 3 - Cultural Considerations

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Chapter 3 introduces the many non-musical features of music study, which typically relate to associated cultural activities. The intent is to introduce these theoretical tools and perspectives of cultural study, so that the reader is prepared for their appearance in discussions found in later chapters.

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Links and Further Resources

Book:
Becker, Judith. Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion and Trancing. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008.
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=21676
Book:
Stokes, Martin, ed. Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, 1997.
http://www.bergpublishers.com/?tabid=2196
Book:
Post, Jennifer, C. Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide. New York: Routledge, 2011.
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415879774/
Book:
Shepherd, John, and Peter Wicke. Music and Cultural Theory. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1997.
http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745608648
Book:
Clayton, Martin, Tervor Herbert and Richard Middleton, eds. The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2012.
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415881913/
Book:
Turino, Thomas. Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008.
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo5867463.html
Book:
Solís, Ted, ed. Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004.
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520238312
Video:
Marre, Jeremy, ed. The Nature of Music [3 programs: 1, Sources and Sorcery; 2, Songs and Symbols; 3, Legends and Labels]. (Out of print VHS videotape but worthwhile if found in a library).