Chapter 1 - Introduction
Part 1: Setting new agendas in the cultural sociology of the arts
Chapter 2 - The Three Generations of the French Sociology of Art
Chapter 3 - Artistic Residencies as Creative Ecologies: Proposing a New Framework for 21st-Century Cultural Production
Chapter 4 - Theory of an Art Market Scandal: Artistic Integrity and Financial Speculation in the Inigo Philbrick Case
Part 2: What art and music mean: Aesthetics and evaluation
Chapter 5 - Constructing Difference and Diversity: Culture, Meaning, and the Social Aesthetics of American Art Music
Chapter 6 Locating Meaning in Contemporary Art: How Artists Conceptualize the Aesthetic Experience
Chapter 7 Moving through Aesthetic Space: Visual Artists and Migration
Chapter 8 Mapping Multivocality: How Critics Communicate Complex Meanings through Metaphor
Part 3: Where art and music happen: Materiality and performance
Chapter 9 - Looking Beyond Interaction: Exploring Meaning Making through the Windows of an Art Gallery
Chapter 10 - Framing Performance and Fusion: How Music Venues’ Materiality and Intermediaries Shape Music Scenes
Chapter 11 - Saron Consāto, Artistic Identity and European Classical Music in Japan
Part 4: Raising the stakes through the arts: Contestation and controversy
Chapter 12 - Owning the Hate: A Case Study of Moral Entrepreneurship in Contemporary Rock Music and the Trademarking of Racial Slurs
Chapter 13- The Music of the Dying Class: Jazz as the Impure Sacred in Stalinist Czechoslovakia
Chapter 14 - Drawing the Line: Evaluation, Boundary work, and Boundary Objects in a New Discipline
Chapter 15 - Music and Democracy in America: Historical Perspectives on ‘Democratization’ in the Digital Age.