Whose music? : a sociology of musical languages /
"This innovative volume argues that any particular kind of music can only be understood in terms of the criteria of the group which makes and appreciates that music. This theme is in sharp contrast to established attitudes to music which utilize 'objectively' conceived aesthetic. Thes...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Transaction,
[2008] c1977
New Brunswick, N.J. : [1980] c1977 |
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| Summary: | "This innovative volume argues that any particular kind of music can only be understood in terms of the criteria of the group which makes and appreciates that music. This theme is in sharp contrast to established attitudes to music which utilize 'objectively' conceived aesthetic. These attitudes are revealed in the assumptions underlying most musicology and musical aesthetics including, perhaps paradoxically, the work of a number of cultural radicals such as Lukacs and Adorno. On a more practical level, they manifest themselves both in music education policies and in the policies of arts and broadcasting administrators, who have the power to promote some kinds of music above others Shepherd, Virden, Vulliamy, and Wishart combine, historical, musicological, and sociological materials and styles of analysis in ways that really connect. Analyses of social class systems apeak in translatable ways to analyses of musical forms. Not only that, both are connected to an understanding of the organizations through which art works are distributed to their ultimate audiences. And further, we see how people learn, in school, what kins of music are to be taken in what ways, what is 'serious' and worthy of our attention, and what is 'mere' popular music to be treated as cultural trash. Finally, and very importantly, we see that theorizing about these matters in an integral part of the process by which dominant class groups justify their domination, cultural and otherwise"--P. [4] of cover |
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| Item Description: | Includes index This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 300 p. : ill. ; 22 cm xiv, 300 p. : ill., music; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. 259-266 |
| ISBN: | 0878553843 : 0878553843 0878558152 (pbk.) 0878558152 (pbk.): |