A landmark in the study of music and culture, this acclaimed volume documents the remarkable scope of amateur music-making in the English town of Milton Keynes. It presents in vivid detail the contrasting yet overlapping worlds of classical orchestras, church choirs, brass bands, amateur operatic societies, and amateur bands playing jazz, rock, folk, and country. Notable for its contribution to wider theoretical debates and its influential challenge to long-held assumptions about music and how to study it, the book focuses on the practices rather than the texts or theory of music, rejecting the idea that only selected musical traditions, "great names," or professional musicians are worth studying. This opens the door to the invisible work put in by thousands of local people of diverse backgrounds, and how the pathways creatively trodden by amateur musicians have something to tell us about both urban living and what it is to be human. Now with a new preface by the author, this long-awaited reissue of The Hidden Musicians will bring its insights and innovations to a new generation of students and scholars.
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"The best academic book on British popular music I've ever read."--Simon Frith, Village Voice
"Urban ethnomusicology at its best."--Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Lingua Franca
"Urban ethnomusicology at its best."--Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Lingua Franca
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"Richly evocative and brimming with insights, The Hidden Musicians is an extraordinary ethnography that should be on the bookshelf of any scholar of popular music studies, ethnomusicology, folklore, or cultural studies." (Harris M. Berger, president, International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US )
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legendary study of local music-making in the 1980s in the UK,
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"This study of local music-making in the modern English town of Milton Keynes documents the activities of amateur groups such as the orchestra, choirs, brass bands, Gilbert and Sullivan societies, and musicians playing in the various popular fields." 28 Half-tones, 2 Tables, 3 Line Diagrams, 2 Maps
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A choir of local residents - men, women and children-file in special costume on to the platform for their annual concert accompanied by visiting soloists and an orchestra of local amateurs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
amateur operatic society, local music centres, local rock players, musical pathways, local amateur music, local musical activities, local musical practice, local musical activity, brass band world, other musical worlds, musical enactment, keen band, different musical worlds, operatic groups, musical practitioners, folk music world, classical music world, local musical groups, local brass bands, motor bikers, classical music tradition, teenage bands, operatic societies, local music teachers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milton Keynes, Stony Stratford, Sherwood Choir, Sherwood Sinfonia, White Hart, T-Bone Boogie Band, Newport Pagnell, Rare Miranda, Fenny Stompers, Fenny Stratford, Original Grand Union Syncopators, Festival of Arts, Woburn Sands Band, New Bradwell, The Void, Woughton Centre, Basically Brian, Martial Law, North Bucks Music Centre, John Close, Exit Stance, Static Blue, Open University, Wolverton Light Orchestra, Rod Hall Browse Sample Pages:
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A choir of local residents - men, women and children-file in special costume on to the platform for their annual concert accompanied by visiting soloists and an orchestra of local amateurs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
amateur operatic society, local music centres, local rock players, musical pathways, local amateur music, local musical activities, local musical practice, local musical activity, brass band world, other musical worlds, musical enactment, keen band, different musical worlds, operatic groups, musical practitioners, folk music world, classical music world, local musical groups, local brass bands, motor bikers, classical music tradition, teenage bands, operatic societies, local music teachers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milton Keynes, Stony Stratford, Sherwood Choir, Sherwood Sinfonia, White Hart, T-Bone Boogie Band, Newport Pagnell, Rare Miranda, Fenny Stompers, Fenny Stratford, Original Grand Union Syncopators, Festival of Arts, Woburn Sands Band, New Bradwell, The Void, Woughton Centre, Basically Brian, Martial Law, North Bucks Music Centre, John Close, Exit Stance, Static Blue, Open University, Wolverton Light Orchestra, Rod Hall Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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