Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation

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. In Music as Social Life , Thomas Turino explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the center of our most profound personal and social experiences. Turino begins by developing tools to think about the special properties of music and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226816974
• ISBN13: 9780226816975
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"