Music and Human Flourishing

Music and Human Flourishing contains essays by eleven prominent scholars representing the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory. This volume, part of the Humanities and Human Flourishing series, explores a fourth musical activity--the act of music scholarship--and reveals how engagement with the cultural, social, and political practices surrounding music contributes to human flourishing in a way that listening, performing, and even composing alone cannot.

Anna Harwell Celenza is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, where she holds a joint appointment in The Writing Seminars and at Peabody Conservatory. She is the author of several books, including Jazz Italian Style, from Its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra (2017) and The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin (2019). She has also published eight award-winning children's books, including Bach's Goldberg Variations, Beethoven's Heroic Symphony, and Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite. In 2016, Celenza co-founded Music Policy Forum, a non-profit that advises local governments about how to create sustainable music ecosystems.

Series Editor's Foreword: "The Humanities and Human Flourishing" by James O. Pawelski
Introduction: "Music and Human Flourishing" by Anna Harwell Celenza
Part I: Contemplation
Chapter 1: Musical Flourishes: Lessons from a Conservatory
Jonathan Coopersmith
Chapter 2: Jubilee: The (Positive) Science of Black Music
Shana Redmond
Chapter 3: Post-Tonal Music and Well-Being
Joy H. Calico
Chapter 4: Can 'Old-Fashioned' Approaches to Listening Contribute to Human Flourishing?
Michael Beckerman
Part II: Critique
Chapter 5: Understanding Music Studies, Well-Being, and the Humanities in Times of Neoliberalism
Alejandro Madrid
Chapter 6: The Music Scholar as a Type of Non-Musician
Todd Decker
Chapter 7: They Say 'Music Should be Seen but not Heard': Music and Flourishing in the Elite
Liberal Arts University
Wendy Heller
Part III: Communication
Chapter 8: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Collaboration in Arts and Human Flourishing
Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Chapter 9: Rethinking Women's Music-Making through the Lens of Human Flourishing
Annegret Fauser
Chapter 10: Playful Transcendence: Paths to Human Flourishing in Black Music Research and Performance
Melvin L. Butler
Chapter 11: Music for the Masses: Finding a Balance between Emotional Labor and Human
Flourishing
Anna Harwell Celenza