Music—a mosaic of human collaboration
Designed with flexibility and breadth in mind, The Musician in Society is an exciting new textbook with eighty-eight independent case studies highlighting the social relationships that make music possible. Like colorful tiles combining to form a mosaic, the interlocking stories of The Musician in Society depict human beings working together to make music—close at hand and far away, long ago and right now.
Flexible
The modular framework makes it easy for you to select case studies that best serve your students’ needs, and it allows you to teach those essays in whichever order you wish.
Engaging
Each case study is written with just enough detail and information to pique students’ interest and prepare them for meaningful and stimulating classroom discussions.
Broad
Each chapter of The Musician in Society spans continents and historical eras, offering Western and non-Western music, notated and non-notated traditions, and classical and popular repertories, all in a framework defined by social roles.
About the Authors
Brett Boutwell and Blake Howe are musicologists at Louisiana State University, where they developed a first-year course for music majors called "The Musician in Society." They are the recipients of several instructional awards from LSU for their undergraduate teaching, which spans small honors seminars, surveys of music history, and large courses in LSU’s general education catalog.
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Hello! I'm Emily. I've been with Norton for four years now and love working with instructors to find out what makes their music courses unique and how Norton's resources energize students.
I play the flute and the piano and there's almost always a record spinning in our living room. My husband and I like to dance with our two-year-old and introduce him to new sounds.
I love what Blake and Brett have done with The Musician in Society, highlighting case studies around the world that show the reader, and listener, the powerful relationships that make music possible.
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