期刊名称：Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education
印刷版ISSN：1545-4517
出版年度：2007
卷号：6
期号：4
页码：109-109
出版社：Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, MayDay Group
摘要：I want to begin this essay at the end, with a conclusion, so we don¡¯t lose track of its
destination: At the center of all music making and musical experience lies a ¡°we,¡± a sense
of collective identity that powerfully influences individual identity. ¡°I am,¡± then, not so much
because ¡°I think¡± or because ¡°I perceive,¡± but because ¡°we are,¡± and more particularly I want
to assert here, because ¡°we are, musically.¡± What I propose is that we start our professional
theorizing here, with music as a social act and social fact, instead of music as an entity to
which my relationship is aesthetic, receptive, and somehow individual in nature. This has
quite a number of salutary consequences, I think, not least of which is the way in which it
binds questions of music¡¯s (and music education¡¯s) significance to the ¡°we¡± of whose
experience it is constitutive. This is to construe music as a fundamentally ethical undertaking,
linked in potent ways to who ¡°we¡± are¡ªto identity.
