Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-03-278814-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Operating largely within the world of European-American classical music, this book discusses the creative work of old musicians—composers, performers, listeners, and scholars—and how those forms of music-making are received and understood. Like everything else about old age, music-making is usually understood as a decline from a former height, a deficiency with respect to a youthful standard. Against this ageist mythology, this book argues that composing oldly, performing oldly, and listening oldly are distinctive and valuable way of making music—a difference, not a deficit; to be celebrated, not ignored or condemned.

 

Instead of the usual biomedical or gerontological understanding of old age, with its focus on bodily, cognitive, and sensory decline, this book follows Age Studies in seeing old age through a cultural lens, as something created and understood in culture. This book seeks to identify the ways that old musicians (composers, performers, listeners, and scholars) accept, resist, adapt, and transform the cultural scripts for the performance of old age. Musicking oldly (making music in old age) often represents an attempt to rewrite ageist cultural scripts and to find ways of flourishing musically in a largely hostile landscape.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Straus, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface                                                                                          

Chapter 1      Introduction  

Chapter 2      Old Age as Culture                                                    

Chapter 3      Cultural Scripts for Old Age                                                                       

Chapter 4      Staging Old Age                                                                                       

Chapter 5      Composing Oldly                                                                                      

Chapter 6      Performing Oldly                                                                                        

Chapter 7      Listening Oldly

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Straus is a Distinguished Professor, Music, CUNY, specializing in music since 1900. He has written technical music-theoretical articles, analytical studies of music by a variety of modernist composers, and, more recently, a series of articles and books that engage disability as a cultural practice.