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Shaping Sound and Society: The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments

Shaping Sound and Society: The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments

Cottrell, Stephen

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Series: Routledge Research in Music

Music Instruction: GeneralMusic ReferenceWorld Music

ISBN10: 1032544090
ISBN13: 9781032544090
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 29 2025
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume brings together leading voices from the new wave of research on musical instruments to consider how we can connect the material aspects of instruments with their social function, approaches that have been otherwise too frequently separated in musical scholarship.

Shaping Sound and Society: The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments locates the instruments at the centre of cultural interactions. With contributions from ten scholars spanning a variety of methodologies and a wide range of both contemporary and historic music cultures, the volume is divided into three sections. Contributors discuss the relationships between makers, performers, and their local communities; the different meanings that instruments accrue as they travel over time and place; and the manner in which instruments throw new light on historic music cultures. Alongside the scholarly chapters, the volume also includes a selection of shorter interludes based on interviews with makers of comparatively new instruments, offering further insights into the process of musical instrument innovation.

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