The Christopher Small Reader is the fourth and final book in Christopher Small’s legacy as a composer, pianist, teacher, friend, provocateur, and influential outsider in classical music studies. It is at once a compendium of, a complement to, and an important addition to Small’s prior books: Musicking; Music, Society, Education; and Music of the Common Tongue. The Christopher Small Reader brings previously published work, some of it available in disparate locations, together with key excerpts from his three books, and other writings that remained unpublished at his passing in 2011, making available ideas that were not included in the earlier books and presenting an overview of his thought over the course of his life. The collection is a fitting capstone, providing rich insights into Small’s understanding of musicking as a crucial way of relating to the world.
Hardcover is un-jacketed.
Table of Content
Editor’s Introduction by Robert Walser
Autobiography (2004; rev. 2008)
Introduction to Music-Society-Education (1977)
A Different Drummer—American Music: From Music-Society-Education (1977)
Introduction to Music of the Common Tongue (1987)
Styles of Encounter III—Jazz: From Music of the Common Tongue (1987)
Whose Music Do We Teach, Anyway? (1990)
Introduction to Musicking: Prelude: Music and Musicking (1998)
A Solitary Flute Player: From Musicking (1977)
Interview by Robert Christgau (2000)
The Sardana and Its Meanings (2003)
Why Doesn’t the Whole World Love Chamber Music? (2001)
Creative Reunderstandings (2005)
Rock Concert (2002)
Exploring, Affirming, Celebrating—and Teaching (2003)
Deep and Crisp and Even (2008)
Six Aphorisms and Five Commentaries (2007)
Afterword: On Music Education (2009)
Pelicans (2009)
Afterword by Susan Mc Clary: Remembering Neville Braithwaite
Acknowledgments
Index
About the author
Robert Walser is a professor of music at Case Western Reserve University, author of Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music, editor of ‘Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History, ‘ and The Christopher Small Reader.
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