Music and Human Flourishing

Anna Harwell Celenza is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, where she holds a joint appointment in The Writing Seminars and at Peabody Conservatory. She is the author of several books, including Jazz Italian Style, from Its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra (2017) and The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin (2019). She has also published eight award-winning children's books, including Bach's Goldberg Variations, Beethoven's Heroic Symphony, and Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite. In 2016, Celenza co-founded Music Policy Forum, a non-profit that advises local governments about how to create sustainable music ecosystems.

• Series Editor's Foreword: "The Humanities and Human Flourishing" by James O. PawelskiIntroduction: "Music and Human Flourishing" by Anna Harwell CelenzaPart I: ContemplationChapter 1: Musical Flourishes: Lessons from a ConservatoryJonathan Coopersmith Chapter 2: Jubilee: The (Positive) Science of Black MusicShana RedmondChapter 3: Post-Tonal Music and Well-BeingJoy H. Calico Chapter 4: Can 'Old-Fashioned' Approaches to Listening Contribute to Human Flourishing?Michael Beckerman Part II: CritiqueChapter 5: Understanding Music Studies, Well-Being, and the Humanities in Times of NeoliberalismAlejandro MadridChapter 6: The Music Scholar as a Type of Non-MusicianTodd Decker Chapter 7: They Say 'Music Should be Seen but not Heard': Music and Flourishing in the EliteLiberal Arts UniversityWendy Heller Part III: CommunicationChapter 8: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Collaboration in Arts and Human FlourishingNancy Yunhwa Rao Chapter 9: Rethinking Women's Music-Making through the Lens of Human FlourishingAnnegret FauserChapter 10: Playful Transcendence: Paths to Human Flourishing in Black Music Research and PerformanceMelvin L. Butler Chapter 11: Music for the Masses: Finding a Balance between Emotional Labor and HumanFlourishingAnna Harwell Celenza