Music Making and Civic Imagination: A Holistic Philosophy

Contents

• 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