Horn Playing as Cultural Practice

Horn Culture / Culture of horn playing

  • People
  • Participation
  • Organizations
  • Part of music culture

Survey

The survey of the topics in trade journals indicates the prevalence of cultural phenomena in self-understanding of the field. Personality cults, countries' stuff, korps and orchestras, teaching the young, cultural codes, underlying assumptions of what horn playing is (orchestral, playing from the score), destabilizing notions (jazz, improvisation)

Stabilizing and destabilizing notions.

The same notion can stabilize one culture and destabilize another (say improvisation).

High culture / Low culture

Culture - Socio-cultural-historical background

By Julius Pranevičius