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Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians - Joseph Straus

Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians

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Buch | Hardcover
138 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-78814-2 (ISBN)
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This book conceives of old age as a cultural formation rather than a biomedical condition. Beyond its critique of ageist reception of musicking, it suggests ways of composing, performing, and listening oldly that are shaped by the particularities of the old body and mind.
Operating largely within the world of European-American classical music, this book discusses the creative work of old musicians—composers, performers, listeners, and scholars—and how those forms of music- making are received and understood. Like everything else about old age, music-making is usually understood as a decline from a former height, a deficiency with respect to a youthful standard. Against this ageist mythology, this book argues that composing oldly, performing oldly, and listening oldly are distinctive and valuable ways of making music—a difference, not a deficit; to be celebrated, not ignored or condemned.

Instead of the usual biomedical or gerontological understanding of old age, with its focus on bodily, cognitive, and sensory decline, this book follows Age Studies in seeing old age through a cultural lens, as something created and understood in culture. This book seeks to identify the ways that old musicians (composers, performers, listeners, and scholars) accept, resist, adapt, and transform the cultural scripts for the performance of old age. Musicking oldly (making music in old age) often represents an attempt to rewrite ageist cultural scripts and to find ways of flourishing musically in a largely hostile landscape.

Joseph N. Straus is Distinguished Professor of Music at the CUNY Graduate Center, specializing in music since 1900. He has written technical music-theoretical articles, analytical studies of music by a variety of modernist composers, and, more recently, a series of articles and books that engage disability as a cultural practice.

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Old Age as Culture

Chapter 3 Cultural Scripts for Old Age

Chapter 4 Staging Old Age

Chapter 5 Composing Oldly

Chapter 6 Performing Oldly

Chapter 7 Listening Oldly

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 367 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-032-78814-3 / 1032788143
ISBN-13 978-1-032-78814-2 / 9781032788142
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