Music as social text
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Music as social text
Polity Press, 1991
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [224]-231
Includes index
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ISBN 9780745608259
Description
The study of music in its social context has expanded rapidly over the last 15 years, yet little of this work discusses the music itself: the processes, textures and structures of sound which so powerfully affects us as individuals. "Music as Social Text" begins by analyzing the forces which have made this kind of discussion difficult within the intellectual tradition of the western world. The book argues that a society in which reality is grasped in an overwhelmingly visual way has difficulty with expression that is non-designative in its use of sound.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Music as Social Knowledge: music premises
- the inadequacy of psychological theories
- the post-renaissance, industrial world
- the blocks against a social theory. Part 2 Music as social text: meaning in music
- functional tonality - a basis for musical hegemony
- the analysis of popular music - class, generation and ethnicity
- music and male hegemony
- music, text and subjectivity. Part 3 musical sociality and musicology: musicology and popular music studies
- towards a musicology of society.
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: pbk ISBN 9780745608266
Description
The study of music in its social context has expanded rapidly over the last 15 years, yet little of this work discusses the music itself: the processes, textures and structures of sound which so powerfully affects us as individuals. "Music as Social Text" begins by analysing the forces which have made this kind of discussion difficult within the intellectual tradition of the western world. The book argues that a society in which reality is grasped in an overwhelmingly visual way has difficulty with expression that is non-designative in its use of sound.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Music as Social Knowledge: music premises
- the inadequacy of psychological theories
- the post-renaissance, industrial world
- the blocks against a social theory. Part 2 Music as social text: meaning in music
- functional tonality - a basis for musical hegemony
- the analysis of popular music - class, generation and ethnicity
- music and male hegemony
- music, text and subjectivity. Part 3 musical sociality and musicology: musicology and popular music studies
- towards a musicology of society.
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