Westviewpress, 1996. — 165 p. Heavy metal is a violent, head-bashing music complete, in its live performances, with its own arena of rage and celebration, the mosh pit. It is a music in the red corner of society, loud, angry, and, to a well-tuned ear, practically intolerable. And yet, the art form radiates a message about American adolescents well worth examining and...
University of Minnesota Press, 2009. — 190 p. “Noise is a model of cultural historiography...In its general theoretical argument on the relations of culture to economy, but also in its specialized concentration, Noise has much that is of importance to critical theory today.” SubStance“For Attali, music is not simply a reflection of culture, but a harbinger of change, an...
Routledge. 1993. ISBN13: 978-0415063692 eBook (Adobe Reader). ISBN10: 0415063698 eBook (Adobe Reader). (306 pages). Rock and Popular Music examines the relations between the policies and institutions which regulate contemporary popular music and the political debates, contradictions and struggles in which those musics are involved. International in its scope and conception,...
Routledge, 2019. — 332 p. By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Second Edition demonstrates how music reflects and deepens both individual and cultural understandings. Musical examples are presented within universally experienced social frameworks (ethnicity, gender, spirituality, love, and more) to help students...
Oxford University Press. 1997. — 240 p. — ISBN13: 978-0195100051; ISBN10: 0195100050. Amid the recent increase in scholarly attention to rock music, Understanding Rock stands out as one of the first books that subjects diverse aspects of the music itself to close and sophisticated analytical scrutiny. Written by some of the best young scholars in musicology and music theory,...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 194 p. Theodor W. Adorno placed music at the centre of his critique of modernity and broached some of the most important questions about the role of music in contemporary society. One of his central arguments was that music, through the manner of its composition, affected consciousness and was a means of social management and control. His...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 196 p. — ISBN-10: 052153724X; ISBN-13: 978-0521537247. Theodor W. Adorno broached key questions about the role of music in contemporary society and argued that it affected consciousness and was a means of social management and control. Asserting that music sociology can be greatly enriched by returning to Adorno's focus on...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 191 p. — ISBN13: 978-0521627320; ISBN10: 052162732X. 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...
Rouledge, 2010. — 400 pages.
Women, Music, Culture is an undergraduate textbook on the history and contribution of women in a variety of musical genres and professions. Clear writing, compelling narrative, and more than fifty guided listening examples bring the world of women in music to life. It includes a wide array of pedagogical aids, including an abundance of photographs,...
Routledge, 2022. — 548 p. The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights is a collection of case studies spanning a wide range of concerns about music and human rights in response to intensifying challenges to the well-being of individuals, peoples, and the planet. It brings forward the expertise of academic researchers, lawyers, human rights practitioners, and performing...
Routledge. 2000. ISBN13: 978-0415053068 eBook (Adobe Reader). ISBN10: 0415053064 eBook (Adobe Reader). (512 pages). Classic sociological analyses of 'deviance' and rebellion; studies of technology; subcultural and feminist readings, semiotic and musicological essays and close readings of stars, bands and the fans themselves by Adorno, Barthes and other well-known contributors
Routledge. 2006. ISBN13: 978-0754640561 eBook (Adobe Reader). ISBN10: 0754640566 eBook (Adobe Reader). (222 pages). Since the emergence of rock'n'roll in the early 1950s, there have been a number of live musical performances that were not only memorable in themselves, but became hugely influential in the way they shaped the subsequent trajectory and development of popular...
New York; London: Routledge, 2008. — 176 p. — ISBN13: 978–0–203–89460–6 eBook; ISBN10: 0–203–89460–X. The purpose of this book is to use music as a tool to help students understand the structure and process of social life. Sociologically, music is important because it simultaneously contains and reflects a people's language, values, feelings, concerns, and goals. The material...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 304 p.
This book presents a unique sociological vision of the evolution of jazz in the twentieth century. Analyzing organizational structures and competing discourses in American music, Paul Lopes shows how musicians and others transformed the meaning and practice of jazz. Set against the distinct worlds of high art and popular art...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. — 160 p. — ISBN10: 150360585X; ISBN13: 978-1503605855 A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, Jazz As Critique looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. Adorno's writings on jazz are notoriously dismissive. Nevertheless, Adorno does have faith in the critical potential of some musical...
2nd Ed. — Wesleyan University Press, 2014. — 281p. — (Music Culture). — ASIN B00OVWQW7I. Dismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, and fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music continues to attract and embody cultural conflicts that are central to society. In Running with the Devil, Robert Walser explores how and why heavy metal...
New York: Routledge, 2015. — 403 p. 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. The volume includes a comprehensive survey...
Routledge, 2015. — 403 p. 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. The volume includes a comprehensive survey of the...
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 0190056657; ISBN13: 978-0190056650 Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and...
New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 2000. — 200 p. — ISBN13: 978-0340652237; ISBN10: 0340652233. This is a highly original and compelling exploration of how popular music is made. The role of the musician is often camouflaged by commercial and marketing pressures and by the common assumption that the music simply reflects the musician's personality. Drawing on a wide range...
Книга. — Вебер М. Избранное. Образ общества.: Пер. с нем. — М.: Юрист, 1994. — С. 469-552. Перевод выполнен по изданию: Weber Max. Die rationalen und soziologischen Grundlagen der Musik. Tubingen, 1972. На русский язык переводится впервые. Последний незавершенный труд М.Вебера в обостренном виде выявляет обычно присущую его работам черту - крайнюю насыщенность материалом,...
Монография. — М.: Издательство: Советский композитор, 1975. — 202 с. — (Музыка - общие работы). — ISBN: 100-0-00001-950-9. Сохор Арнольд Наумович (1924 - 77) - музыковед и музыкальный критик. С 1971 г. возглавлял секцию социологии искусства и эстетики Ленинградского ин-та театра, музыки и кинематографии (ныне Российский институт истории искусств - РИИИ), преподавал в...
Монография — Мн.: БНТУ, 2006. — 109 с. Работа посвящена одному из важнейших явлений культуры – музыкальному творчеству, которое автор рассматривает как социокультурный феномен, раскрывая его понятие, генезис, функции, специфику и тенденции развития. Центральной темой научного исследования является анализ творческой деятельности композитора. Значительное место в монографии занимает...
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