ISBN:
9780719072161
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (254 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Music & Society
Parallel Title:
Print version Music and the sociological gaze : Art worlds and cultural production
DDC:
306.4842
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
In this important new book, Peter J. Martin explores the interface between musicological and sociological approaches to the analysis of music, and in doing so reveals the differing foundations of cultural studies and sociological perspectives more generally. Building on the arguments of his earlier book Sounds and society, Dr Martin initially contrasts text-based attempts to develop a ?social? analysis of music with sociological studies of musical activities in real cultural and institutional contexts. It is argued that the difficulties encountered by some of the ?new? musicologists in their e
Description / Table of Contents:
Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I Musicology and sociology: the interface; 2 Music and the sociological gaze; 3 Over the rainbow? On the quest for'the social' in musical analysis; 4 Music and manipulation; Part II The sound of social stratification:the din of inequity; 5 Class, culture and concerts; 6 Musical life in the 'first industrial city'; Part III Improvisation and interaction; 7 Spontaneity and organisation; 8 'Hear me talkin'': art worlds,improvisation and the language of jazz; 9 Text, context and the cultural object; Part IV Coda; 10 Everyday music
Description / Table of Contents:
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Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781847792235
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