The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure

Music has been a vital part of leisure activity across time and cultures. Contemporary commodification, commercialization, and consumerism, however, have created a chasm between conceptualizations of music making and numerous realities in our world. From a broad range of perspectives and approaches, this handbook explores avocational involvement with music as an integral part of the human condition. The chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure present myriad ways for reconsidering and refocusing attention back on the rich, exciting, and emotionally charged ways in which people of all ages make time for making music. The contexts discussed are broadly Western, including an eclectic variety of voices from scholars across fields and disciplines, framing complex and multifaceted phenomena that may be helpfully, enlighteningly, and perhaps provocatively framed as music making and leisure. This volume may be viewed as an attempt to reclaim music making and leisure as a serious concern for, amongst others, policy makers, scholars, and educators who perhaps risk eliding some or even most of the ways in which music - a vital part of human existence - is integrated into the everyday lives of people. As such, this handbook looks beyond the obvious, asking readers to consider anew, ＂What might we see when we think of music making as leisure?＂

Roger Mantie (PhD, University of Toronoto; MM, Brandon University) is Associate Professor at Arizona State University. His teaching and scholarship are informed by his fourteen years as a school music educator. His work emphasizes connections between schooling and society, with a focus on lifelong engagement in and with music and the arts. A widely published author, he is coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Technology and Music Education (2017).

Gareth Dylan Smith is an independent scholar based in London. He is at the forefront of research in popular music education, serving as editor for the Journal of Popular Music Education and The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education (2016), with numerous journal articles and book chapters published in the field. Gareth is a drummer and a longtime musical collaborator with other rockers, punks, theater musicians, and songwriters, playing on various recordings and performing in bars, clubs, festivals and theaters. His next commercial musical release will be a concept album entitled Tinker Tailor Soldier Rock. Following his cultural-psychological study of drum-kit players I Drum, Therefore I Am: Being and Becoming a Drummer (2013), his current research includes a phenomenological study of embodiment in drum-kit performance. His life in music, leisure, and academia is comically chronicled at drdrumsblog.com.