The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure

by Roger Mantie (Editor), Gareth Dylan Smith (Editor)

Overview

Music has been a vital part of leisure activity across time and cultures. Contemporary commodification, commercialization, and consumerism, however, have created a chasm between conceptualizations of music making and numerous realities in our world. From a broad range of perspectives and approaches, this handbook explores avocational involvement with music as an integral part of the human condition. The chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure present myriad ways for reconsidering and refocusing attention back on the rich, exciting, and emotionally charged ways in which people of all ages make time for making music. The contexts discussed are broadly Western, including an eclectic variety of voices from scholars across fields and disciplines, framing complex and multifaceted phenomena that may be helpfully, enlighteningly, and perhaps provocatively framed as music making and leisure. This volume may be viewed as an attempt to reclaim music making and leisure as a serious concern for, amongst others, policy makers, scholars, and educators who perhaps risk eliding some or even most of the ways in which music - a vital part of human existence - is integrated into the everyday lives of people. As such, this handbook looks beyond the obvious, asking readers to consider anew, "What might we see when we think of music making as leisure?"

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190244705
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/02/2017
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Pages:	694
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.80(h) x 2.20(d)

About the Author

Roger Mantie (PhD, University of Toronoto; MM, Brandon University) is Associate Professor at Arizona State University. His teaching and scholarship are informed by his fourteen years as a school music educator. His work emphasizes connections between schooling and society, with a focus on lifelong engagement in and with music and the arts. A widely published author, he is coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Technology and Music Education (2017).

Gareth Dylan Smith is an independent scholar based in London. He is at the forefront of research in popular music education, serving as editor for the Journal of Popular Music Education and The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education (2016), with numerous journal articles and book chapters published in the field. Gareth is a drummer and a longtime musical collaborator with other rockers, punks, theater musicians, and songwriters, playing on various recordings and performing in bars, clubs, festivals and theaters. His next commercial musical release will be a concept album entitled Tinker Tailor Soldier Rock. Following his cultural-psychological study of drum-kit players I Drum, Therefore I Am: Being and Becoming a Drummer (2013), his current research includes a phenomenological study of embodiment in drum-kit performance. His life in music, leisure, and academia is comically chronicled at drdrumsblog.com.

Table of Contents

Contents

EDITORS' INTRODUCTION

1. Roger Mantie and Gareth Dylan Smith
Grasping the Jellyfish of Music Making and Leisure

SECTION I

2. Marie McCarthy
Creating a Framework for Music Making and Leisure: Max Kaplan Leads the Way

3. Susan Hallam, Andrea Creech, and Maria Varvarigou
Well-Being And Music Leisure Activities Through The Lifespan: A Psychological Perspective

4. Abigail D'Amore and Gareth Dylan Smith
Aspiring to Music Making as Leisure through the Musical Futures Classroom

5. Adam Patrick Bell
D.I.Y. Recreational Recording as Music Making

6. Joseph Pate and Brian Kumm
Contemplating Compilations: An Invitation to . . .

7. David Lines
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps": Music Education and Guitar as Leisure

8. Kevin Rathunde and Russell Isabella
Playing Music and Identity Development in Middle Adulthood: A Theoretical and Autoethnographic Account

9. Gareth Dylan Smith
(Un)popular Music Making and Eudaimonism

SECTION II

10. Stephanie Pitts
"The Violin in the Attic": Investigating the Long-Term Value of Lapsed Musical Participation

11. Sidsel Karlsen
Leisure-time Music Activities from the Perspective of Musical Agency: The Breaking Down of a Dichotomy

12. Jennie Henley
The Musical Lives of Self-confessed Non-musicians

13. Zack Moir
Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education and Industry

14. Andy Krikun
"Perilous Blessing of Leisure": Music and Leisure in the United States, 1890-1945

15. Valerie L. Vaccaro
A Consumer Behavior-Influenced Multi-Disciplinary Transcendent Model of Motivation for Music Making

16. Karl Spracklen
Developing a Cultural Theory of Music Making and Leisure: Baudrillard, the simulacra and music consumption

17. Gabby Riches
Feeling Part of the Scene: Affective Experiences of Music Making Practices and Performances within Leeds' Extreme Metal Scene

18. Serena Weren, Olga Kornienko, Gary W. Hill, and Claire Yee
Motivational and Social Network Dynamics of Ensemble Music Making: A Longitudinal Investigation of a Collegiate Marching Band

SECTION III

19. Robert A. Stebbins
Leisure Music Production: Its Spaces and Places

20. Hermione Ruck Keene and Lucy Green
Amateur and Professional Music-Making at Dartington International Summer School

21. Ronnie Richards
"What's Your Name, Where Are You From and What Have You Had?" Utopian memories of Leeds' Acid House culture in Two Acts

22. Joseph Pignato
Red Light Jams: A Place Outside of All Others

23. Brett Lashua
The Beat of a Different Drummer: Music Making as Leisure Research

24. Jenna Ward and Allan Watson
"FX, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll": Engineering the Emotional Space of the Recording Studio

25. Christopher Cayari
Music Making on YouTube

26. Alberto Trobia and Fabio M. Lo Verde
Italian Amateur Pop-Rock Musicians on Facebook: Mixed Methods and New Findings in Music Making Research


SECTION IV

27. Karen Fox
Entering Into An Indigenous Cypher: Indigenous Music-Dance Making Sings to Western Leisure

28. Jared O'Leary and Evan Tobias
Sonic Participatory Cultures within, through, and around Video Games

29. Thomas Malone
"Singer's Music": Considering Sacred Harp Singing as Musical Leisure and Lived Harmony

30. Shara Rambarran
"DJ Hit That Button": Amateur Laptop Musicians in Contemporary Music and Society

31. Gillian Howell, Lee Higgins, and Brydie-Leigh Bartleet
Community Music Practice: Intervention Through Facilitation

32. Roger Mantie
Leisure Grooves: An Open Letter to Charles Keil

Index

Editorial Reviews

"The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure contributes to interdisciplinary, global conversations about music making as an intrinsic part of human existence. Throughout the chapters, one is reminded of the nuances and complexity of leisure and the variegated roles and meanings that music plays within it. The frame of 'music making and leisure' presents and permits possibilities, provocation, and other potentialities, both explicit and implied. The book may inspire readers to think differently and to encourage the same in others and perhaps help to effect positive change in the world." — SirReadaLot

"Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; professionals; general readers."—CHOICE

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