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Cultural Engagement: The Case of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Marcia Herndon
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Music and dance serve to transmit visual, auditory, and symbolic indications of cultural identity. Within a society, the cultural performances of its particular named, identified groups create special kinds of temporal-spatial continua. Analysis of the positioning of, and support for, these groups through time within a given society reveals the type and degree of cultural engagement.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 20 , 1988 , pp. 134 - 145
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Copyright © 1988 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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