Music And Human Flourishing

It has long been accepted that participating in music, either as a performer, listener, or composer, can contribute to human happiness and well-being. This volume, part of The Humanities and Human Flourishing series, explores a fourth musical activity¿the act of music scholarship¿and reveals how engagement with the cultural, social, and political practices surrounding music contributes to human flourishing in a way that listening, performing, and evencomposing alone cannot.Music and Human Flourishing contains essays by eleven prominent scholars representing the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory. The essays are divided into three general categories and cover a broad range of topics and music traditions. In Part I, Contemplation, contributors explore a specific facet of music''s connection to human flourishing and contemplate new approaches for future action. Part II, Critique, contains essays that challenge past assumptions of thevarious roles of music in society a

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