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Music in everyday life / Tia DeNora.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000Description: xiii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521622069
  • 9780521622066
  • 052162732X
  • 9780521627320
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.11
LOC classification:
  • ML3795 .D343 2000
Online resources:
Contents:
1. 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.
Summary: "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."--Publisher description.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 781.11 DEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A410150B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-176) and index.

1. 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.

"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."--Publisher description.

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