Singing, Song, and Sound as Human Acts of Personal and Cultural Agency

European Voices VI

Contributions by Kim Burton Contributions by Lauge Dideriksen Contributions by Ulrich Morgenstern Contributions by Guido Battista Raschieri Contributions by Erna Ströbizer Contributions by Susanne Schedtler Contributions by Antonis Ververis Contributions by Rytis Ambrazevičius Contributions by Anda Beitāne Contributions by Paolo Bravi Contributions by Herbert Zotti Contributions by Jasmina Talam Edited by Ardian Ahmedaja

Book cover: Singing, Song, and Sound as Human Acts of Personal and Cultural Agency

Extent: 308 pages

Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Wien

Subjects: Music & Performing Arts

Series: Musik Traditionen / Music Traditions

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2025)

ISBN: 9783205223740

6.93 x 9.69 inches

Price: $100.00

In stock

Johann Gottfried Herder characterised singing and song as human acts of personal and cultural agency (Herder and Bohlman 2017). These agencies are enacted musically, centralising the idea of “performance”. In this context, “singing” refers to the act of performance, which, due to its interactive nature in real time, is the most important moment of music-making, particularly in multipart music traditions, while “song” and its emergence remain the object and subject of the act of creation. “Sound” is an indispensable part of all these processes. The perception and interpretation of these aspects by different people affect both the practice and discourse of music, shaping meaningful experiences in terms of the attitudes and cognitive processes involved in its creation (Blacking 1973).

  • Contributions by Kim Burton
  • Contributions by Lauge Dideriksen
  • Contributions by Ulrich Morgenstern
  • Contributions by Guido Battista Raschieri
  • Contributions by Erna Ströbizer
  • Contributions by Susanne Schedtler
  • Contributions by Antonis Ververis
  • Contributions by Rytis Ambrazevičius
  • Contributions by Anda Beitāne
  • Contributions by Paolo Bravi
  • Contributions by Herbert Zotti
  • Contributions by Jasmina Talam
  • Edited by Ardian Ahmedaja