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9780819562647 : my-music-crafts-cavicchi-keil
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My Music

Explorations of Music in Daily Life

By Susan D. Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi, Charles Keil and Music in Daily Life Project
Wesleyan University Press
A first-hand exploration of the diverse roles music plays in people's lives.

My Music is a first-hand exploration of the diverse roles music plays in people's lives. "What is music about for you?" asked members of the Music in Daily Life Project of some 150 people, and the responses they received — from the profound to the mundane, from the deeply-felt to the flippant — reflect highly individualistic relationships to and with music. Susan Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi, and Project Director Charles Keil have collected and edited nearly forty of those interviews to document the diverse ways in which people enjoy, experience, and use music.

CONTRIBUTORS: Charles Keil, George Lipsitz.

Reviews

"Not surprisingly, people listen to music for many different reasons and in many different ways, but the authors express pleasant surpise at most respondents' keen interest and intelligence about popular music in general and the astonishing range of individuals' interests despite the narrowcasting principles of radio specifically and the media in general."—The Washington Post

"My Music presents a lively cross-section of lay commentary on music... The interviews are very rich, and not only for their musical content. There are miniature psychodramas, and some clouded glimpses into private lives... My Music is unique in its use of open-ended, more-or-less nondirective interviews, and its focus on the voices of ordinary people...I suspect it will prove especially useful in the classroom."—Postmodern Culture

"Not surprisingly, people listen to music for many different reasons and in many different ways, but the authors express pleasant surpise at most respondents' keen interest and intelligence about popular music in general and the astonishing range of individuals' interests despite the narrowcasting principles of radio specifically and the media in general."—The Washington Post

"The subjects here are the weirdest of the weird: ordinary people. The project interviewed people aged four to 83 on what music meant to them, using relatives, friends, ex-employees, and neighbors as questioners so that the answers wouldn't be the usual lies we tell about our tastes. It's staggering."—SF Weekly

Endorsements

"My Music captures the day-to-day and moment-to-moment experience of perfectly ordinary people. In revealing their keen interest in and their intelligence about popular music, it shows them to be the proper subject of musicology and cultural research."—Paul Buhle, editor of Popular Culture in America

"Whether they think [music is] occasional background, the meaning of life, or some unique amalgam of both, few of these informants pigeonhole neatly into one of those taste subcultures beloved of marketers, programmers, sociologists, and rock critics . . . With the most uncommitted users attesting to some degree of saturation, what comes through is how uncontrollably each bends music to his or her own semiconscious needs or well-conceived purposed.""—Robert Christgau

"My Music captures the day-to-day and moment-to-moment experience of perfectly ordinary people. In revealing their keen interest in and their intelligence about popular music, it shows them to be the proper subject of musicology and cultural research."—Paul Buhle, editor of Popular Culture in America
Wesleyan University Press
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Paperback / softback
May 1, 1993
9780819562647
English
244
9.00 Inches (US)
6.00 Inches (US)
.75 Pounds (US)
$22.95 USD, £16.95 GBP
v2.1 Reference
Electronic book text
May 1, 2011
9780819572639
English
244
9.00 Inches (US)
6.00 Inches (US)
$17.99 USD, £13.50 GBP
v2.1 Reference
9780819562647 : my-music-crafts-cavicchi-keil
Paperback / softback
244 Pages
$22.95 USD
Add to Cart
9780819572639 : my-music-crafts-cavicchi-keil
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244 Pages
$17.99 USD
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Other Titles by Daniel Cavicchi

9780819571625 : listening-and-longing-cavicchi

Listening and Longing

Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum
Daniel Cavicchi
Dec 2011 - Wesleyan University Press
$25.95 USD - Paperback / softback
$19.99 USD - Electronic book text
9780819567611 : born-in-the-u-s-a-cullen-cavicchi

Born in the U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen and the American Tradition
Jim Cullen
Jun 2005 - Wesleyan University Press
$24.95 USD - Paperback / softback

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9780253052995 : provenance-and-early-cinema-bernardi-usai-williams

Provenance and Early Cinema

edited by Joanne Bernardi, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Tami Williams, Joshua Yumibe, with contributions by Camille Blot-Wellens, Germain Lacasse, Grazia Ingravalle, Ian Christie, Noemi Daugaard, Olivia Kristina Stutz, Priska Morrissey, Clara Au...
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$50.00 USD - Paperback / softback
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Beyond the Screen

Institutions, Networks, and Publics of Early Cinema
edited by Marta Braun, Charles Keil, Rob King, Paul S. Moore, Louis Pelletier
Aug 2012 - John Libbey Publishing
$35.00 USD - Paperback / softback
9780819564887 : bright-balkan-morning-keil-keil-blau

Bright Balkan Morning

Romani Lives and the Power of Music in Greek Macedonia
Charles Keil, Angeliki Keil, photographs by Dick Blau
Dec 2002 - Wesleyan University Press
$39.95 USD - Paperback / softback

Other Titles from Music / Culture

9780819501028 : fraught-balance-silverstein

Fraught Balance

The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria
Shayna M. Silverstein
May 2024 - Wesleyan University Press
$95.00 USD - Hardback
$26.95 USD - Paperback / softback
9780819569196 : living-space-veal

Living Space

John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital
Michael E. Veal
Apr 2024 - Wesleyan University Press
$95.00 USD - Hardback
$28.00 USD - Paperback / softback
9780819501059 : sounds-of-other-shores-eisenberg

Sounds of Other Shores

The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast
Andrew J. Eisenberg
Apr 2024 - Wesleyan University Press
$95.00 USD - Hardback
$25.95 USD - Paperback / softback
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9781985900585 : helen-morgan-connelly

Helen Morgan

The Original Torch Singer and Ziegfeld's Last Star
Christopher S. Connelly
Aug 2024 - University Press of Kentucky
$70.00 USD - Hardback
$35.00 USD - Electronic book text
$70.00 USD - Online resource
9780813184272 : swing-it-sforza

Swing It!

The Andrews Sisters Story
John Sforza
Oct 2021 - University Press of Kentucky
$35.00 USD - Electronic book text
$30.00 USD - Paperback / softback
9780253052827 : beyonce-iddon-marshall-lordi

Beyoncé

At Work, On Screen, and Online
edited by Martin Iddon, Melanie L. Marshall, with contributions by Emily J. Lordi, Will Fulton, Lisa Colton, Julia Cox, Jaap Kooijman, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, Eduardo Viñuela
Nov 2020 - Indiana University Press
$80.00 USD - Hardback
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