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  title info:
    title: Musical models of democracy
  name:
    name part: Adlington, Robert
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (unpaged) : color illustrations
  abstract: "For one hundred years and more, musicians have been drawn to the potential of musical processes and relationships to embody democratic principles. This book is the first extended study of this 'musical modelling of democracy', as manifested in modern and experimental music of the global North. Four different approaches are surveyed in turn. In the music of Elliott Carter, democratic principles shape the textural relationships inscribed in the musical score. The indeterminate music of John Cage and his associates sought to democratise the composer-performer relationship by leaving open fundamental decisions about the realisation of a piece. Musicians have involved audiences in active participation, as a means to liberate them from a passive spectatorship. Free improvisation groups have experimented with new kinds of egalitarian relationship between ensemble members, in an effort to reject old hierarchies. In examining these different approaches, modern democratic theory is deployed to illuminate the achievements and ambiguities of musical models of democracy, stressing the heterogeneity of democracy as a concept, and the impossibility of conceiving specific democratic arrangements independently of particular, situated interests. An opening chapter establishes the contestability of democracy as a concept, and the book closes with a consideration of musical treatments of democracy in the age of Donald Trump"--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: Deciding how to decide : the choices for democratic music-making -- Curating difference : Elliott Carter and modernist pluralism -- Admitting interests : on the openness of musical indeterminacy -- Empowering others : audience participation as 'democracy in action' -- Practising egalitarianism : free improvisation and the limits to inclusive music-making -- Ungrounded : musical models of democracy in the age of epistemic chaos.
  note: Robert Adlington.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Music
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Music)
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Aleatory music
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Improvisation (Music)
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Musique
    topic: Aspect politique
  subject:
    topic: Modernisme (Musique)
    topic: Aspect politique
  subject:
    topic: Musique aléatoire
    topic: Aspect politique
  subject:
    topic: Improvisation (Musique)
    topic: Aspect politique
  subject:
    topic: Démocratie locale
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: Music
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Music
  subject:
    topic: Music
  classification: ML3916 .A365 2024
  classification: 780/.0321
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    title info:
      title: Musical models of democracy
    name:
      name part: Adlington, Robert.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2024]
    identifier: (DLC) 2023017605
    identifier: (OCoLC)1382693006
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230613
    record change date: 20260318165735.3
    record identifier: in00005698584
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng