Music, Society, Education

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MUSIC, SOCIETY, EDUCATION M U S I C / C U L T U R E A seriesfrom Wesleyan University Press Edited by George Lipsitz, Susan McClary, and Robert Walser Published titles My Music by Susan D. Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi, Charles Keil, and the Music in Daily Life Project Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music by RobertWalser Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West by Mark Slobin Upside Your Head! Rhythm and Blues on Central Avenue by Johnny Otis Dissonant Identities: The Rock'n 'Roll Scene in Austin, Texas by Barry Shank Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America by Tricia Rose Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital by Sarah Thornton Music, Society, Education by Christopher Small Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction by Keith Negus MUSIC, SOCIETY, EDUCATION Christopher Small WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Published by University Press of New England Hanover and London UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND publishes books under its own imprint and is the publisher for Brandeis University Press, Dartmouth College, Middlebury College Press, University of New Hampshire, Tufts University, Wesleyan University Press, and Salzburg Seminar. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755© 1977, 1980 by Christopher Small Foreword to the 1996 edition © 1996 by Robert Walser All rights reserved Wesleyan University Press paperback edition 1996. First published in Great Britain in 1977 by John Calder (Publishers) Ltd. Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Small, Christopher, 1927Music , society, education / by Christopher Small p. cm. "Wesleyan University Press." Originally published: London : J. Calder, 1977. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8195-6307-2 (pa : alk. paper) 1. Music and society. 2. Music—Instruction and study. 3. Music—Philosophy and aesthetics. I. Title. ML3795.S55 1996 780'.7—dc20 96-20010 @ In memory of my mother and father "The imagination, therefore, is much more than the imaginary. It embraces the entire existence of man. For we do not only respond with feeling or admiration, but participate, through the symbols offered by a work of the imagination, in a potential society which lies beyond our grasp." Jean Duvignaud The Sociology of Art ...