Music, Talent & Performance A Conservatory Cultural System

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Summary: Music making as making more than sound
Review: This book is an adapted version of the author's doctoral dissertation. Through ethnomusicological study of a music conservatory, Prof. Kingsbury brought to western music scholars and lovers a widened concepts of music, music talent, and music performance. Music is much more than sound structure. Music is also "constructed" by its social context. Comparing the book with the dissertation, the sequence of the chapters is a bit different. There are also some additions in the Temple University Press book version. It is a thought provoking book for ethnomusicologists, musicologists, anthropologists, and particularly western music lovers.