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https://doi.org/10.21464/sp311019

Musically Human-Made World. Possibilities for Recomposing and Creating a Human World Through the Activity of Music

Maja Bjelica orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-7499-2861 ; University of Primorska, Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Philosophical Studies, Garibaldijeva 1, SI–6000 Koper


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Abstract

This paper offers an interdisciplinary account and a reflection of the interconnections and relations among music, human life, and the world. With the intention to present the possible ways of defining music, two approaches are examined. These approaches are “musicking” and the disjunctive strategy of understanding music, both of which provide a descriptive and not an evaluative account. After a brief acknowledgement of music as a means for political propaganda, and as a means belonging to the sphere of mass production and conformism, the other side of music is to be presented mainly through the concept of “community music”, where the unconditional welcome of striving towards the impossible and the infinite responsibility towards the other makes music universal exercise in ethical gestures, openness, and acceptance.

Keywords

music; music and philosophy; definition of music; music as event; “musicking”; musical encounter; propaganda music; “community music”; unconditional welcome

Hrčak ID:

179910

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/179910

Publication date:

5.9.2016.

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