Music as Ethics: Stories from Virginia (1)

"This chapter outlines the intellectual history and conceptual framing that shapes the presentation of ethnographic cases in the subsequent chapters.

After a review of the models of music and ethics that informed the author's prior assumptions, the chapter describes a four-cornered conceptual frame-ethics, goods, exchange, and musical meaning-that emerged over the course of fieldwork.

Ethics is described as a mode of evaluative thought-feeling that helps members"--.