Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: This commentary discusses the anthropological implications of Richard Widess' paper by summarizing some anthropological approaches to music, especially focusing on the way musical participation inculcates and transmits an aesthetic orientation that guides action across cultural domains such as politics, economics and religion.The paper ends by suggesting that the heart of human culture is more likely to be an aesthetic orientation than a script or set of rules, and traces out some reasons why music does this so well.
Source: Empirical Musicology Review
DOI: 10.18061/1811/52987
Author: Jerome Lewis
Institution: University College London
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2168924941