The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music

Editors: Shepherd, John and Devine, Kyle
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Routledge

Single-User Purchase Price: $175.00
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ISBN: 978-0-41-585546-4
Category: Social Sciences - Sociology
Book Status: Available
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The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music offers the first collection of source readings and new essays on the latest thinking in the sociology of music. Interest in music sociology has increased dramatically over the past decade, yet there is no anthology of essential and introductory readings.

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Table of Contents

  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: Music and the Sociological Imagination—Pasts and Prospects - John Shepherd and Kyle Devine
  • Section I Source Readings
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 The Origin and Function of Music - Herbert Spencer
  • Chapter 2 Psychological and Ethnological Studies on Music - Georg Simmel
  • Chapter 3 Rational and Social Foundations of Music - Max Weber
  • Chapter 4 Musical Taste and How it is Formed - John H. Mueller
  • Chapter 5 Making Music Together: A Study in Social Relationship - Alfred Schütz
  • Chapter 6 Sociology of Music - Theodor Adorno
  • Section II Approaches, Sites, and Debates
  • Preface
  • A The Music Itself
  • Chapter 7 Music as Social Meaning - Susan McClary
  • Chapter 8 Music, the Body, and Signifying Practice - John Shepherd
  • Chapter 9 Music and the Sociological Gaze - Peter Martin
  • B Creation
  • Chapter 10 Ethnography and Interaction - David Grazian
  • Chapter 11 Performance Perspectives - Lisa McCormick
  • Chapter 12 Production Perspectives - Marco Santoro
  • C Consumption
  • Chapter 13 Identity: Music, Community, and Self - Andy Bennett
  • Chapter 14 Taste as Distinction - Richard A. Peterson
  • Chapter 15 Taste as Performance - Antoine Hennion
  • Section III Politics, Social Issues, and Musical Cultures
  • Preface
  • Chapter 16 Resistance and Social Movements - Eric Drott
  • Chapter 17 Gender and Sexuality - Marion Leonard
  • Chapter 18 Hip Hop and Race - Anthony Kwame Harrison
  • Chapter 19 Cultural Globalization: Pop-Rock and Musical Cosmopolitanism - Motti Regev
  • Chapter 20 Music Criticism and Taste Cultures - Morten Michelsen
  • Chapter 21 Art Music and Social Class - William Weber
  • Chapter 22 Cityscapes - Sara Cohen
  • Chapter 23 The Body and Dance - Mary Fogarty
  • Section IV Industries and Institutions
  • Preface
  • Chapter 24 Recorded Music - Dave Laing
  • Chapter 25 Live Music - Simon Frith
  • Chapter 26 Cultural Policy and the Creative Industries - Adam Behr
  • Chapter 27 Copyright - Lee Marshall
  • Section V Technology and Mediation
  • Preface
  • Chapter 28 Instruments and Innovation - Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld
  • Chapter 29 Radio - Christina Baade
  • Chapter 30 Music and the Moving Image: A Case Study of Hans Zimmer - Benjamin Wright
  • Chapter 31 Digitalization - Paul Théberge
  • Section VI New Directions
  • Preface
  • Chapter 32 After Adorno - Tia DeNora
  • Chapter 33 Bourdieu and Beyond - Nick Prior
  • Chapter 34 Mediation Theory - Georgina Born
  • Chapter 35 From Signification to Affect - Jeremy Gilbert
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS