Music and the sociological gaze : art worlds and cultural production
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Music and the sociological gaze : art worlds and cultural production
(Music and society)
Manchester University Press, 2006
- : hardback
- : pbk
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Note
Bibliography: p. [225]-240
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 efforts to introduce a social dimension to their work are often a result of their unfamiliarity with contemporary sociological discourse.
Just as linguistic studies have moved from a concern with the meaning of words to a focus on how they are used, a sociological perspective directs our attention towards the ways in which the production and reception of music inevitably involve the collaborative activities of real people in particular times and places. -- .
Table of Contents
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
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 -- .
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