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.
By:
Dave Camlin (Royal College of Music UK)
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 170mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 608g
ISBN: 9781789388022
ISBN 10: 1789388023
Series: Music, Community, and Education
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 24 October 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword Acknowledgements PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1. Music in an Uncertain World - An uncertain future - The value of musicing - Hysteresis - Changing value of music - Key themes - Musicing, musicking, ‘musicians’ and musician–researchers - Musician-as-researcher - Being human - Diffraction/waveform interference - Terrapolis - Bumps in the road - Inequalities of cultural access - Devaluation of music - Summary - Who is this book for? - Structure and contents 2. Libraries Gave Us Power - This is my truth… - Sage Gateshead and beyond - Praxis - Thinking about music PART 2 THINKING ABOUT MUSIC 3. Music as a Complex Adaptive System - 600+ Mechanisms - Complex adaptive systems (CAS) - Music as a polyvalent system - The advocacy trap - All roads lead to complexity - Music as gestalt - Music in human evolution - Music as communicative medium - Entrainment - Communicative musicality - What’s love got to do with it? - What is love anyway? - The limbic system - Interpersonal neurobiology - Feeling felt - What’s music got to do with it? - Agential realism - Entanglement and intra-action - Diffraction - Apparatus - The aesthetic ‘cut’ - Music as a vitality - ‘Affect’ attunement - Conclusion 4. Performing Works, Performing Relationships - Background - Sage Gateshead - Praxis - Music in three dimensions - Dimensions - Musical dimensions - Aesthetic – The performance of musical ‘Works’ - Participatory – The ‘Performance’ of relationships - Musical continuum - Paramusical dimension - Assumptions - Reflective questions - Holistic - Holistic assumptions - Reflective questions - Implications - Holistic philosophy of music - Quality is contingent - Dialogue - Dissensus - Epistemology - Praxis - Conclusion 5. Music, Politics and Society - Honourable and dishonourable traditions - The ‘polis’ - Bonding and bridging social capital - Feeling felt - Musical citizens - Music and the family - Music and the community - Limits of human cooperation - Music and the people - Music and the nation-state - Music and national identity - Estonian singing revolution - Music as a national political resource - Injustice and the difference principle - Vigilance - Rational communities of music - Doxa - Intervention - The community of those who have nothing in common - Addressing cultural inequalities - Application of knowledge - The word ‘cope’ and the word ‘change’ 6. Music Making and Civic Imagination - Citizens of the planet 126 - Cosmopolitanism 127 - Critics of cosmopolitanism 128 - Post-nationalism 129 - Terrapolitanism 130 - What is civic imagination? 132 - Dialects of civic imagination 133 - Disavowal of politics 136 - Sovereignty of the states 137 - European project as civic imagination 139 - Music making and civic imagination 141 - Music and the dialects of civic imagination 142 - Disavowal of politics through artistic expression 143 - Vigilance as qualifier 145 - Music’s floating intentionality 146 - Mobilization of terrapolitan identity 147 - Intertextuality 148 - Terrapolitanism is not a competition 149 - The performance of values 151 - Nationalist/capitalist values 152 - Humanist values 152 - Performing love 153 - Performing reciprocity 154 - Performing justice 154 - Performance of virtue 155 - Problems of humanism 156 - Musicing in a post-human world 156 - Musical citizens of the planet 158 - Music and the universe next door 159 - Practical applications 161 PART 3 PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS 7. This Musician - Socially engaged student performances at Sage Gateshead - Example 1: We are who we can be - Example 2: Big about Corby - Example 3: Fram fest - Example 4: Disability dilemmas - Assessing quality - Student encounters with participatory music at the Royal College of Music - Participatory projects - This place - These people 8. Musician Education - What are we educating musicians for? - What is music for? - Portfolio careers in music - Praxis - Skills, attributes and values - Authenticity - Diffractive pedagogy - Organizational dynamics - Situational music education pedagogy - Situational leadership - Limitations - Conclusions References Index
Dr. Dave Camlin’s musical practice spans performance, composition, teaching, Community Music (CM) and research. He lectures in music education at the Royal College of Music and Trinity-Laban Conservatoire and was Head of HE / Research at Sage Gateshead from 2010-19.
Reviews for Music Making and Civic Imagination: A Holistic Philosophy
Camlin has an uncanny ability to uncover and make visible the fundamental truths about musicing that we intuit from practice. Camlin’s quest to understand the phenomenon of musicing has led him to read widely from many different disciplines, which moves us towards a consilient understanding of why music is of such tremendous value now, more than ever. This book is a tremendous contribution to the discourse on what it means 'to music' and what music can mean for the survival of our species, and the planet. -- Melissa Forbes, Associate Professor in Contemporary Singing, University of Southern Queensland, on Giabal and Jarowair Country, Australia
