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Watt, Gary (2020) Law making music. Law and Humanities, 14 (1). pp. 26-56. doi:10.1080/17521483.2020.1752429
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2020.1752429
Abstract
This essay proceeds in three parts. The first part introduces a Māori waiata (a ceremonial song, with movements) that occurred in the debating chamber of the New Zealand parliament in 2017 on the Third Reading of Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Bill. The resulting statute confers legal personality on the Whanganui River. The second part advances a way of approaching musical appreciation as a mental activity which, by joining sound to musical meaning not only makes musical sense of sound, but can also, in so doing, be said to participate in the process of making music. Crucial to the move from making sense of music to making music, is the notion that music is inherently a metaphorical way of thinking about sound; one in which the music metaphor operates by making sound humanly meaningful. The third part – proceeding from the idea that music operates as metaphor and, like all metaphor, produces meaning by translating abstractions into concrete conceptions – posits music as a bridge (a joint or articulation) between eras, cultures and social strata that might otherwise struggle to find meaningful points of connection and communication. The hope is that we might come to understand law making music in the sense both of ‘law making’ music and law ‘making music’.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | M Music and Books on Music > M Music | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Music -- Law and legislation, Music, Sound, Music -- Social aspects | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Law and Humanities | ||||||
| Publisher: | Hart Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1752-1483 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 12 May 2020 | ||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 April 2020 | ||||||
| Volume: | 14 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 26-56 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/17521483.2020.1752429 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Publisher Statement: | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Law and Humanities on 12/05/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17521483.2020.1752429 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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