Overview
This book explores the idea of music making (musicing) - the ‘performance’ of human relationships through music - as a resource for imagining possible futures. Through practical examples, it highlights the value of musicing as a resource for human evolution and sustainable development, through the power of human musical connection. 10 b/w illus.
An argument for the ethical applications and uses of music.
Music Making and Civic Imagination makes a powerful case for the potential of music to aid in human flourishing. Dave Camlin, a musician and educator, lays out a holistic philosophy of music, acknowledging the complex web of meaning which spreads across its many complementary dimensions. As a performance of ethical human values of love, reciprocity, and justice, the making of music, Camlin shows, can help facilitate ethical human connection and be a resource for both imagining and inhabiting the kind of world we might wish to live in.
Music Making and Civic Imagination makes a powerful case for the potential of music to aid in human flourishing. Dave Camlin, a musician and educator, lays out a holistic philosophy of music, acknowledging the complex web of meaning which spreads across its many complementary dimensions. As a performance of ethical human values of love, reciprocity, and justice, the making of music, Camlin shows, can help facilitate ethical human connection and be a resource for both imagining and inhabiting the kind of world we might wish to live in.
- | Author: Dave Camlin
- | Publisher: Intellect
- | Publication Date: Oct 24, 2023
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9781789388022
- | ISBN-10: 1789388023