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  • Music as Ethics: Stories from Virginia

    Music as Ethics by McGraw, Andrew;

    Stories from Virginia

    Series: AMERICAN MUSICSPHERES SERIES;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 29 August 2023

    • ISBN 9780197654880
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages224 pages
    • Size 162x237x21 mm
    • Weight 449 g
    • Language English
    • 441

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    Short description:

    Music as Ethics offers a comparative ethnography of four musical communities in Virginia: a monastery, an intentional community, the Richmond city jail, and the city of Richmond, VA. While music's relationship to ethical life differs between each community, ethnographic research suggests that music can serve as a means to a more ethical lifestyle.

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    Long description:

    Music as Ethics offers a comparative ethnography of the relationship of music to ethics in four communities in Virginia, covering a wide range of demographic contexts and musical repertoires. Holy Cross Monastery in Berryville is a small community of fifteen Trappist monks who follow the rule of St. Benedict, composed in the early sixth century. Twin Oaks in Louisa is a ninety-member intentional community, founded in 1967, dedicated to egalitarianism. The "Sanctuary" in the Richmond city jail is a community of approximately forty residents drawn from two of the facility's dorms. Richmond is the state capital, with a fraught history of racial inequality. To say that we can experience music "as" ethics means that we can hold several, culturally informed attitudes about music's ethical meanings and functions. While music's relationship to ethical life differs between each community, the case studies suggest that we can all grow as ethical individuals and communities if we pay close attention to music's ethical potential. But as long as our experience of music as ethics remains implicit and vague, we miss an opportunity to fully realize its ethical affordances. More than that, we also expose ourselves to manipulation by those who would wield music (and other "affective" means) for their own social agenda.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements
    Introduction
    Chapter 1: Conceptual Frame
    Chapter 2: Holy Cross Monastery
    Chapter 3: Twin Oaks Intentional Community
    Chapter 4: Richmond Jail
    Chapter 5: Richmond City
    Chapter 6: Conclusion: Music as Ethics
    Notes
    References
    Index

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