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In the academy, as in contemporary society, music’s role extends beyond recreation and entertainment. The act of creating, whether by composer or performer, moves inner knowledge outward and proffers a communicative transaction which can be the start of community. While tensions exist between educational models of liberal and professional study, music provides a potential model for integration, balancing action and reflection, the abstract and the concrete. Drawing on Nussbaum’s vision of liberal learning in the post-modern age (Cultivating Humanity, 1997), music is considered as a distinctive expressive form capable of mediation between the spiritual and the material; between the cultivated and the vernacular; and between the self and the other.
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Ferguson, L.C. (2018). Music in the Academy: Process, Product, and the Cultivation of Humanity. In: Hensel, N. (eds) Exploring, Experiencing, and Envisioning Integration in US Arts Education. The Arts in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71051-8_12
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