Beschreibung:
Jochen Eisentraut's book provides a range of perspectives on why, and how, we engage with music.
Introduction; Part I. An Outline Topography of Musical Accessibility: 1. What is musical accessibility?; 2. Society, atonality, psychology; Part II. Accessibility Discourse in Rock, and Cultural Change: Case study 1; 3. 'Prog' rock/punk rock - sophistication, directness and shock; 4. Zeitgeist - accessibility in flux; Part III. A Valiant Failure? New Art Music and the People: Case study 2; 5. Vaughan Williams' National Music in context; 6. Art music, vernacular music and accessibility; Part IV. Accessibility, Identity and Social Action: Case study 3a; 7. Accessibility in action - Bahia, Brazil; Case study 3b; 8. Samba in Wales - how is adopted music accessible?; Part V. Themes: 9. Some key concepts; Postscript; Glossary of neologisms.