Includes bibliographical references and index.

MUSIC FUNDAMENTALS. Chapter 1: Musical Foundations ; Chapter 2: Listening to Music ; Four Listening Examples -- MUSICAL IDENTITIES. Music and the Life Cycle ; Chapter 5: Black American Music ; Music and Gender and Sexuality ; Music and Spirituality -- MUSICAL INTERSECTIONS. Chapter 8: Music and Politics ; Music and War ; Music and Love -- MUSICAL NARRATIVES. American Musical Theater ; Music and Film ; Music and Dance ; Music in the Concert Setting ; Music and Technology.

"By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Third Edition demonstrates how music reflects and deepens both individual and cultural understandings. Musical examples are presented within universally experienced social frameworks (ethnicity, gender, spirituality, love, and more) to help students understand how music reflects and advances human experience. Students engage with multiple genres (Western art music, popular music, and world music) through lively narratives and innovative activities. A companion website features streaming audio and instructors' resources. Features: Dismisses traditional, chronological format designed around European Western canon to meets needs and interests of today's ethnically diverse students; Builds on a series of chapter-long theme-oriented narratives such as ethnicity, gender, spirituality, love, technology, that interweave the musical "here and now"; Focuses on how music creates and reflects social meaning in a variety of cultures and time periods. Leads the student from music or ideas with which they are familiar to music that is unfamiliar, always through the connecting thread of the original social concept. NEW - Greatly revised chapters due to considerable societal changes in the past four years. Changes in: Gender and ethnicity (retitled Music and Race in America), Music and technology and Music and the nation. NEW - Digs deeper into the "how and why" for students who are increasingly interested in reflective ideas, updating the Teacher's Manual with detailed essay assignments drawn from one of the social conundrums presented each chapter. NEW - Additions to repertoire particularly in Popular Song and Jazz and in tandem with points above"-- Provided by publisher.