Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. An Outline Topography of Musical Accessibility: 1. What is musical accessibility?; 2. Society, atonality, psychology; Part II. Accessibility Discourse in Rock, and Cultural Change: Case study 1; 3. 'Prog' rock/punk rock – sophistication, directness and shock; 4. Zeitgeist – accessibility in flux; Part III. A Valiant Failure? New Art Music and the People: Case study 2; 5. Vaughan Williams' National Music in context; 6. Art music, vernacular music and accessibility; Part IV. Accessibility, Identity and Social Action: Case study 3a; 7. Accessibility in action – Bahia, Brazil; Case study 3b; 8. Samba in Wales – how is adopted music accessible?; Part V. Themes: 9. Some key concepts; Postscript; Glossary of neologisms.

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About the Author

Jochen Eisentraut is a lecturer at Bangor University's School of Music. As an accomplished composer and performer, he has written music for television and theatre as well as for his own projects. With an interdisciplinary, multicultural and multi-genre approach, he has lectured on a wide range of topics in music, ideas and culture. Jochen is originally from Germany and has carried out fieldwork in Brazil and Wales, playing concerts in Mexico City and Paris, and run workshops on some of the UK's most deprived estates. His publications include Sound and Music in Film and the Visual Media: An Overview (co-editor and contributor, 2009) and articles for the British Journal of Ethnomusicology.