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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521622069

ISBN-139780521622066

eBay Product ID (ePID)1728561

Product Key Features

Number of Pages196 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMusic in Everyday Life

Publication Year2000

SubjectPhilosophy & Social Aspects, Sociology / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorTia Denora

Subject AreaMusic, Social Science

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight15 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN99-052606

Reviews"With Music in Everyday Life, DeNora has crafted an important cultural analysis of the consumption of music....Music in Everyday Life is a thoughtful, well-written book that contains important theoretical and substantive contributions. It should be well received by sociologists of popular music, sociological social psychologists, and ethnomusicologists alike." Contemporary Sociology, "...Original in conception and based on years of research, this book offers interpretive and cultural sociologist a novel point of entree into the study of embodied lived meaning." Daniel Thomas Cook, American Journal Of Sociology

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal781.11

Table Of Content1. Formulating questions - the music and society nexus; 2. Musical affect in practice; 3. Music as a technology of self; 4. Music and the body; 5. Music as a device of social ordering; 6. Music's social powers.

SynopsisThe power of music in everyday life is widely recognized and this is reflected in social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an influence on character, social structure and action. This book uses a series of ethnographic studies and in-depth interviews to show how music is a constitutive feature of human agency. Drawing together concepts from psychology, sociology and sociolinguistics it develops a theory of music's active role in the construction of social life and highlights the aesthetic dimension of social order and organization in modern societies., The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an influence on character, social structure and action. There have, however, been few attempts to specify this power empirically and to provide theoretically grounded accounts of music's structuring properties in everyday experience. Music in Everyday Life uses a series of ethnographic studies - an aerobics class, karaoke evenings, music therapy sessions and the use of background music in the retail sector - as well as in-depth interviews to show how music is a constitutive feature of human agency. Drawing together concepts from psychology, sociology and socio-linguistics it develops a theory of music's active role in the construction of personal and social life and highlights the aesthetic dimension of social order and organisation in late modern societies., This book uses ethnographic studies and in-depth interviews to show how music is a constitutive feature of human agency. It develops a theory of music's active role in the construction of social life and highlights the aesthetic dimension of social order and organisation in modern societies.

LC Classification NumberML3795 .D343 2000