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This book brings together researchers from a range of disciplines that use diverse methodologies to provide new perspectives and formulate answers to questions

This book explores how the immediate experience of musical sound relates to processes of meaning construction and discursive mediation. A unique multi-authored

Extending the inquiry of his early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the heart of traditional studies of Western music by asserting that music