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Sociology of Music, Art, Film, TV and Media

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Music, Art, Film, TV and Media shape society with their enormous appeal and reach.

Max Paddison: Adorno's Aesthetics of Music Summarized by Szu-Hsien Lee ... Beyond Adorno's theory of the sociology of music, he also relates this to the autonomous character of Western high art. minotaurz.com/minotaur/edu/aesthetics/Adorno.html

Sociology of popular music Ozomatli - Cut Chemist Suite DJ QBert and Mix Master Mike - Scratching Grand Master Flash - Dont Push Me Farnky Boyz - Jazzy Scratch Farnky Boyz - Reprank Song selections by Prof. Basu: -  cs.hmc.edu/~rmcknigh/soc71/music/music.html

Sociology of Music  PAPERS WRITTEN BY CHARLES M. BROWN. ... and Alienation: Blues, Spirituals, Secular Thrash, and Christian Thrash Metal - geocities.com/cbrown965/papers.htm

Harry Partch and the Sociology of Composition - furious.com/perfect/harrypartch.html ... Most of his works are large-scale dramas, music-theatre. In a way he was creating sociology, creating unusual events

400 political songwriters, including some greats like Pete Seeger and Charlie King. Centered along the U.S. East Coast. - peoplesmusic.org/

Hard Miles Music: Hard Miles Music is an independent record label devoted to restoring folk music and art to their rightful status within the labor movement. This site contains RealAudio recordings of original labor songs performed by songwriter Phil Cohen and by the Whiteville Apparel Choir of the UNITE Local 1077 needle trades union in Whitevill, NC. The Choir is a regular feature at union conferences and picket lines across the South.

Arts For Social Change - creativity.net/AFSC_96.html

Music, Art, Film, TV and Media - Bibliography

Altman, Rick. Film/Genre. London: BFI Publishing, 1999. (Includes specific discussion of genre and nation)

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1991.

Andrew Horton. The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation.

Andrew Horton. The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos

Andrzej Wajda. Double Vision: My Life in Film.

Ang, Ien. Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Armes, Roy. Third World Film Making and the West. Berkeley: U of California P, 1987.

Arnett Jeffrey, 1991, Adolescent and Heavy Metal music, in “Youth and Society”, 23 (I), pp.76-98.

Arthur Nolletti Jr. and David Desser. Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History.

Audie Bock. Japanese Film Directors.

Baldwin, Thomas. Convergence: Integrating Media, Information, and Communication. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1996.

Baudrillard, Jean. Simulations. New York: Semiotext(e), 1983.

Baudry, Jean-Louis. Apparatus theory.

Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Illuminations. New York: Schocken, 1969.

Bennett Andy, 2001, Contemporary Youth Music and “Risk” Lifestyles, in Best Joel (a cura di).

Bérénice Reynaud. BFI Modern Classics: A City of Sadness.

Bordwell, David, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson. The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960. New York: Columbia UP, 1985.

Bruce Austin. Ch.1 "The film industry and audience research".

Bryson Bethany, 1996, “Anything but Heavy Metal”: symbolic exclusion and musical dislikes, in “American Sociological Review”, 61 (5), pp.884-899.

Byg, Barton. Landscapes Of Resistance: The German Films Of Daniele Huillet And Jean Marie Straub. Berkeley: U of California P, 1995.

Charles Musser selected chapters in "Before the Nickleodeon", Berkeley, Univ. of California Press. 1991.

Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1988.

Coates, Paul. Film At The Intersection Of High And Mass Culture. Cambridge ; Cambridge UP, 1994.

Corrigan, Timothy. New German Film: The Displaced Image. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.

Davis, Jim, Thomas Hirschl, and Michael Stack. Eds. Cutting Edge: Technology, Informatin, Capitalism, and Social Revolution. London: Verso, 1997.

DeCerteau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: U of California P, 1984.

Donald Kirihara. Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s.

Donald Richie. Ozu

Douglas Gomery "Contemporary Movie-going". Chapter 6. in Shared Pleasures.

Douglas Gomery. "The Movie Show Begins", Ch. 1. in Shared Pleasures. Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

Douglas Gomery. Shared Pleasures. U of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

Elsaesser, Thomas and Kay Hoffmann, eds. Cinema Futures: Cain, Abel or Cable? The Screen Arts in the Digital Age. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 1998.

Elsaesser, Thomas. New German Cinema: A History. London: BFI, 1989.

Epstein, ‘Multiplexities’. The New Yorker. 1998.

Fabian, Johannes. Time and the Other: How Antorpology Makes its Object. New York: Columbia UP, 1983.

Fehrenbach, Heide. Cinema In Democratizing Germany. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1995.

Ferrarotti Franco, 1995, Homo sentiens - Giovani e musica. La rinascita della comunità dallo spirito della nuova musica, Liguori Editore, Napoli.

Finney, Angus. The State of European Cinema: A new Dose of Reality. London: Cassell, 1996.

Fischer Paul D., 2003, Challenging Music as Expression in the United States, in Cloonan, Garofalo (a cura di).

Fiske, John. Understanding Popular Culture. Boston: Unwin Hyman: 1989.

Garth S. Jowett. "The First Motion Picture Audiences". J of Popular Film.pp.39-54.

Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Culture.

Ginsberg, Terri and Kirsten Moana Thompson. Eds. Perspectives on German Cinema. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996.

Goodwin, Peter. Television under the Tories: Broadcasting Policy 1979-1997. London: BFI, 1998.

Gramsci, Antonio. Notes from the Prison Notebooks.

Grant, Barry Keith, ed. Film Genre Reader. Austin: U of Texas P, 1995.

Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Cambridge: MIT, 1991 (1962).

Hamm Mark S., 1995, Hammer of Gods Revisited: Neo-Nazi Skinheads, Domestic Terrorism, and the Rise of the New Protest Music, in Ferrell Jeff, Sanders Clinton R. (a cura di).

Handel. Ch.1 "The development and nature of film audience research".

Harris Keith, 2000, “Roots”?: the relationship between the global and the local within the extreme Metal scene, in “Popular Music”, 19 (1), pp.13-29.

Herbert Gans. Popular Culture and High Culture. An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste. Baisc Books. 1999 (edition).

Hjort, Mette, and Scott MacKenzie. Cinema And Nation. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment. (culture industry discussion)

Ivone Margulies. Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday.

James Quandt. Shohei Imamura (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs, No. 1).

Jameson, Fredric, and Masao Miyoshi, eds. The cultures of globalization. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.

Jameson, Fredric. Geopolitical Aesthetic:Cinema & Space in the World System Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1995.

Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late Capitalism. Durham : Duke University Press,1991.

Jason E. Squire. ‘Industry Economic and Profile’. In The Movie Business Book. 1992.

Jean Drum and Dale D. Drum. My Only Great Passion: The Life and Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer.

Jonathan Rosenbaum. Film: The Front Line – 1983

Kaes, Anton. From Hitler To Heimat: The Return Of History As Film. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1989.

Kathryn Fuller. " The Cook and Harris High Class Moving Picture Company" Chapter 1. in At the Picture Show. Smithsonian Institution Press. 1996.

Kathryn Fuller. At the Picture Show. Small Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture. Smithsonian Institution Press. 1996.

Kracauer. Basic Concepts. From the Theory of Film. In Film Theory and Criticism (ed) Braudy and Cohen.

Laclau, Ernesto and Chantal Mouffe. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Toward a Radical Democratic Politics. London: Verso, 1985.

Lauretis, Teresa de and Stephen Heath, eds. The Cinematic Apparatus. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.

Layoun, Mary. Travels of a Genre: The Modern Novel and Ideology.

Lev, Peter. The Euro-American Cinema. Austin: U of Texas P, 1993.

Lister, Martin. ed. The Photographic Image in Digital Culture. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Lutze, Peter C. Alexander Kluge: The Last Modernist. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1998.

Lynxwiler John, Gay David, 2000, Moral boundaries and deviant music: public attitudes toward Heavy Metal and Rap, in “Deviant Behavior”, 21, pp.63-85.

Menon Arianna, 1999, Il malessere sociale attraverso la musica e i fenomeni settari: il caso Marilyn Manson e il millenarismo, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Bologna, a.a.1999-2000.

Thornton Sarah, 1995, Dai Club ai Rave - Musica, media e capitale sottoculturale, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1998.

Brownstein Henry H., 1995, The Media and the Construction of Random Drug Violence, in Ferrell Jeff, Sanders Clinton R. (a cura di).

Chesney-Lind Meda, 1999, Media Misogyny: Demonizing “Violent” Girls and Women, in Ferrell Jeff, Websdale Neil (a cura di).

Critcher Chas, 2003, Moral panics and the media, Open University Press, Buckingham.

Erjavec Karmen, 2003, Media construction of identity through moral panics: discourses of immigration in Slovenia, in “Journal of Ethnic Migration Studies”, 29 (1), pp.83-101.

Ericson Richard V., 1991, Mass Media, Crime, Law, and Justice: A Institutional Approach, in “British Journal of Criminology”, 31, pp.219-249.

Ericson Richard V. (a cura di), 1995, Crime and the Media, Dartmouth, Aldershot.

Ferrell Jeff, Milovanovic Dragan, Lyng Stephen, 2001, Edgework, media practices, and the elongation of meaning, in “Theoretical Criminology”, 5 (2), pp.177-202.

Hartmann Paul, Husband Charles, 1973, The mass media and racial conflict, in Cohen Stanley, Young Jock (a cura di).

Howe Adrian, 1999, “The War Against Women”: Media Representations of Men’s Violence Against Women in Australia, in Ferrell Jeff, Websdale Neil (a cura di).

Hunt Arnold, 1997, “Moral panic” and moral language in the media, in “The British Journal of Sociology”, 48 (4), pp.629-648.

Katz Jack, 1987, What Makes Crime “News”?, in “Media, Culture and Society”, 9, pp.47-75.

Kidd-Hewitt David, Osborne Richard (a cura di), 1995, Crime and the media - The post-modern spectacle, Pluto Press, London-Chicago.

Killingbeck Donna, 2001, The role of television news in the construction of school violence as a “moral panic”, in “Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture”, 8 (3), pp.186-202.

Knight Stephen, 1980, Form and ideology in crime fiction, The Macmillan Press, London.

Kooistra Paul G., Mahoney John S. Jr., 1999, The Historical Roots of Tabloid TV Crime, in Ferrell Jeff, Websdale Neil (a cura di).

Konstantinidou Christina, 2001, Societal Representations of Crime: The Criminality of Albanian Immigrants in Athens Press, in Albrecht Hans-Jorg, Koukoutsaki Afroditi, Serassis Telemach (a cura di).

Lees Sue, 1995, Media Reporting of Rape: The 1993 British “Date Rape” Controversy, in Kidd-Hewitt David, Osborne Richard (a cura di).

Luhmann Niklas, 1996, La realtà dei mass media, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2000.

Lupton Deborah, 1994, Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires: AIDS in the News Media, Taylor & Francis Ltd., London-Bristol.

Torti Maria Teresa, 2000, Giovani e “popular music” nella ricerca sociale italiana, in “Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia”, XLI (2), pp.291-302.

Wright Robert, 2000, “I’d sell you suicide”: pop music and moral panic in the age of Marilyn Manson, in “Popular Music”, 19 (3), pp.365-385.

Lynch Michael J., Stretesky Paul, Hammond Paul, 2000, Media coverage of chemical crimes, Hillsborough County, Florida, 1987-97, in “British Journal of Criminology”, 40, pp.112-126.

Benedict Helen, 1992, Virgin or Vamp - How the press covers sex crimes, Oxford University Press, New York-Oxford.

Braden William, 1973, LSD and the press, in Cohen Stanley, Young Jock (a cura di).

Frith Simon, 1978, Sociologia del Rock, Feltrinelli,Milano, 1982.

Brake Mike, 1980, The sociology of youth culture and subcultures - Sex and drugs and rock’n’roll?, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.

Cloonan Martin, Garofalo Reebee (a cura di), 2003, Policing Pop, Temple University Press, Philadelphia.

McNair Brian, 1996, Mediated Sex - Pornography & Postmodern Culture, Arnold, London.

McRobbie Angela, Thornton Sarah L., 1995, Rethinking “Moral Panic” for Multi-Mediated Social Worlds, in “The British Journal of Scociology”, 46 (4), pp.559-574.

Melossi Dario, 1976, Ricerca in tema di mass-media e politica criminale in Italia negli ultimi anni, in “La Questione Criminale”, II (1), pp.169-179.

Mohammad Fida, 1999, Jihad as Terrorism: The Western Media and the Defamation of the Qu’ran, in Ferrell Jeff, Websdale Neil (a cura di).

Murdock Graham, 1978, Dall’etichettamento alla legittimazione: linee di tendenza nello studio della devianza e dei mass media in Gran Bretagna, in “La Questione Criminale”, IV (2), pp.331-347.

Nunnally Jum C., 1973, Mental illness: what the media present, in Cohen Stanley, Young Jock (a cura di).

Osborne Richard, 1995, Crime and the Media: From Media Studies to Post-modernism, in Kidd-Hewitt David, Osborne Richard (a cura di).

Pearce Frank, 1973, How to be immoral and ill, pathetic and dangerous, all at the same time: mass media and the homosexual, in Cohen Stanley, Young Jock (a cura di).

Peelo Moira, Francis Brian, Soothill Keith, Pearson Jayn, Ackerley Elizabeth, 2004, Newspaper reporting and the public construction of homicide, in “British Journal of Criminology”, 44 (2), pp.256-275.

Perlmutter David D., 2000, Policing the Media - Street Cops and Public Perceptions of Law Enforcement, SAGE, London.

Picard Robert G., 1993, Media Portrayals of Terrorism - Functions and meaning of news coverage, Iowa State University Press, USA.

Pines Jim, 1995, Black Cops and Black Villains in Film and TV Crime Fiction, in Kidd-Hewitt David, Osborne Richard (a cura di).

Reinarman Craig, Duskin Ceres, 1999, Dominant Ideology and Drugs in the Media, in Ferrell Jeff, Websdale Neil (a cura di).

Richardson James T., 1991, Satanism in the Courts: From Murder to Heavy Metal, in Richardson et alii.

Rowe Laurel, Cavender Gray, 1991, Cauldrons Bubble, Satan’s Trouble, But Witches are Okay: Media Constructions of Satanism and Witchcraft, in Richardson et alii.

Sacco Vincent F., 1995, Media constructions of Crime, in “Annals of the America Accademy of Political and Social Science”, 539, pp.141-154.

Schlesinger Philip, Tumber Howard, Murdock Graham, 1991, The Media Politics of Crime and Criminal Justice, in “British Journal of Sociology”, 42, pp.397-420.

Schubart Rikke, 1995, From Desire to Deconstruction: Horror Films and Audience Reactions, in Kidd-Hewitt David, Osborne Richard (a cura di).

Skidmore Paula, 1995, Telling Tales: Media Power, Ideology and the Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse in Britain, in Kidd-Hewitt David, Osborne Richard (a cura di).

Surette Ray (a cura di), 1984, Justice and the Media - Issues and Research, Charles C Thomas Publisher, Springfield.

Watney Simon, 1987, Policing Desire - Pornography, AIDS and the media, Methuen & Co. Ltd, London.

Welch Michael, Price Eric A., Yankey Nana, 2002, Moral panic over youth violence: wilding and the manufacture of menace in the media, in “Youth and Society”, 34 (1), pp.3-30.

Welch Michael, Sassi John, McDonough, 2002, Advances in critical cultural criminology: an analysis of reactions to avant-garde flag art, in “Critical Criminology”, 11, pp.1-20.

Albrecht Hans-Jorg, Koukoutsaki Afroditi, Serassis Telemach (a cura di), 2001, Images of crime - Representations of crime and the criminal in science, the arts and the media, Edition Iuscrim, Freiburg.

Barak Gregg, 1994, Between the Waves: Mass-mediated Themes of Crime and Justice, in “Social Justice”, 21, pp.133-147.

Brookes Rod, Lewis Justin, Wahl-Jorgensen Karin, 2004, The media representation of public opinion: British television news coverage of the 2001 general election, in “Media, Culture & Society”, 26 (1), pp.63-80.

MacDougall, David. Transcultural Cinema. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998. (ethnographic cinema and visual anthropology).

Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum. Contemporary Film Directors: Abbas Kiarostami.

Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby (eds). American Movie Audiences. From the turn of the century to the early sound era. British Film Institute Press. 1999.

Miller, Toby. "Hollywood and the World." The Oxford Guide to Film Studies. John Hill, Pamela Church Gibson, Richard Dyer, et al, eds. New York: Oxford UP, 1998: 371-81

Moran, Albert. ed. Film Policy: International, National, and Regional Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Naficy, Hamid, Teshome H. Gabriel, eds. "Discourse of the other: postcoloniality, positionality and subjectivity." Quarterly Review Of Film And Video. 1991 13(1-3).

Neale, Steve and Murray Smith. Eds. Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Philip Lentz.‘Word of Mouth can make or break a movie’. The Bulletin. 1979.

Puttnam, David. The Undeclared War: The Struggle For Control Of The World's Film Industry. London : HarperCollins, 1997.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, and Notes.

Rentschler, Eric. West German Film In The Course Of Time: Reflections On The Twenty Years Since The Oberhausen Manifesto. Bedford Hills: Redgrave P, 1984.

Rosalind Williams. "Dream Worlds of Mass Consumption", chapter 3 in Dream Worlds. Mass Consumption in Late 19th century France. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley. 1982.

Sahin, Haluk and Asu Aksoy, "Global Media and Cultural Identity in Turkey." Journal of Communication. 43, no. 2 (1993): 31-41

Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism.

Satyajit Ray. Childhood Days, A Memoir.

Satyajit Ray. My Years With Apu, A Memoir.

Seán Allan and John Sandford. DEFA East German Cinema, 1946-1992.

Semati, M. Mehdi and Patty J. Sotirin. "Hollywood's Transnational Appeal: Hegemony and Democratic Potential?" Journal of Popular Film and Television. 26, no. 4 (1999): 176-88.

Setser, Bradley W. Slaying Sacred Cows : The Sources Of Policy Change In US/EU Negotiations Over Agricultural Policy And Audiovisual Services During The GATT Uruguay Round. 1997

Shohat, Ella and Robert Stam, eds. Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media.

Simmel. "The metropolis and mental life". pp.409-424. in The Sociology of George Simmel. Trans. Kurt Wolff.

Steven, Peter. Jump Cut: Hollywood, Politics, and Counter-Cinema. New York: Praeger, 1985. (dated but good for a discussion of dominant and counter-cinema.)

Strauss Zelnick. "Twentieth Century Fox".in Making and Selling Culture. 1996.

Taylor, Charles et al. Multiculturalism : Examining The Politics Of Recognition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. (Contains important essays by Habermas, Appiah, etc.)

Thomas Elsaesser. Space, Frame, Narrative. (ed). 1990. BFI Publishing.

Time magazine. 9/13/99. ‘A Theater Near You’.

Tolentino, Roland B. Articulations of the nation-space: cinema, cultural politics and transnationalism in the Philippines. Dissertation 1996.

Tom Gunning. " An aesthetic of astonishment: Early Film, and the (In)credulous Spectator", pp. 818-832. in Art and Text 34. Spring 1989.

Tom Gunning. "The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant Garde" .pp56-61.in Early Cinema.

Vanessa Schwartz. "Cinematic spectatorship before the apparatus: The public taste for reality in fin-de-siecle Paris".pp.297-319. in Charney and Schwartz.

Will Wright. Sixguns and Society. University of California Press, Berkeley.1975

Music, Art, Film and TV - Journals

The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes strategies to use media as creative tools for public knowledge and action. It focuses on social documentaries for civil society and democracy, and on the public media environment that supports them. The Center is part of the School of Communication at American University. - centerforsocialmedia.org/about/

Social Semiotics has, from its inception in 1991, adopted a transdisciplinary approach to discourse, linguistics, cultural studies, communication, literature, performance, film, television, art and music, as a way of bringing together diverse discourses within an understanding of language as social semiotic.
Social Semiotics connects discourse analysis with contemporary theory, feminist theories, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and a variety of approaches to cultural studies. - taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/

The International Association for Media and History is an organization of filmmakers, broadcasters, archivists and scholars dedicated to historical inquiry into film, radio, television, and related media. We encourage scholarly research into the relations between history and the media as well as the production of historically informed documentaries, television series, and other media texts. - iamhist.org/index.html

Cognitive Cultural Studies: CogWeb is a research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to communication and cultural studies. It is edited by Francis Steen, acting assistant professor in Communication Studies at UCLA. - cogweb.net/

Strictly Film School is a dynamic, evolving personal homage journal dedicated to the analysis of landmark world cinema from an academic perspective: universal themes, symbols and imagery, historic context and artistic genres. - filmref.com/index.html

Film Studies Resources - uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/film_resources.html

Friction is a general interest magazine rooted in the spirit of punk rock. Here you will find articles and essays that stimulate your brain while they entertain you. ... 9/11, as if Springsteen ushered in a new era of musical social criticism or a more valid musical witness to 9/11. ... frictionmagazine.com/song/song.asp

Critical analysis of landmark international and independent cinema. ... Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, and Notes by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. ... perceptive, knowledgeable, and comprehensive critical essays on the most influential and ... filmref.com/journal2004.html 

Music, Art, Film and TV - Syllabus

Sociology of Music, Art, Film and TV

GHIS 5131 Poetry and Protest: Local Cultural Identities in a Global World - Fall 2004. New School University - Eiko Ikegami
Arts, poetry, and cultural practices often express sentiments of protest. The term poetry is used as a metaphor for various forms of aesthetic practices manifested in such forms as fiction, stories, poetry, performing arts, music, and fashion. Poetry can be a form of expressing protest in a variety of ways; direct expressions of political contention are only one way of connecting the dimensions of aesthetics and politics. Consequently, this seminar explores the dynamic relationships between poetry and politics from a variety of sociological viewpoints. Drawing from cases in various areas such as East India, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe, this course explores the dynamics of forming local cultural identities expressed in the medium of popular cultural practices and aesthetics against the contexts of global and regional cultural intersections. The focus of our exploration lies in the dynamic cultural interactions between local and global in the formation of identities.

SOCIOLOGY OF THE ARTS - Emory University - Soc 561; Spring 2005
Sociological consideration of the arts has a long history. It extends back to the works of such classical writers as Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Georg Simmel and weaves its way to contemporary work by such scholars as Paul DiMaggio, Wendy Griswold, and Tia DeNora. In this advanced seminar, we seek a purchase on this literature by attending to a number of themes and exemplar works within these themes. As a result, we will examine theoretical traditions associated with, among others, Pierre Bourdieu and Theodor Adorno, and we will explore such topics as artistic careers, cultural capital, and the globalization of the arts. 

Soc 71: Sociology of popular music. Prof. Dipannita Basu dbasu@pitzer.edu
This course concentrates on primarily reggae, dancehall, hip-hop and dance music (house to UK underground garage). These genres provide the sonic prism through which to examine: the societal conditions in which music emerges; authenticity and appropriation (how popular music thrives on borrowing customizing and reinterpreting other people's cultural property); the representation/production and consumption of music (i.e. the media and music industry), and the political and social implications of popular music (gender, race, globalization).

The Sociology of Music - Graduate Institute of Musicology, National Taiwan University - gim.ntu.edu.tw/english.htm
Instructor - GJen-yen Chen
Semester - GSpring 2007
Course description
This course explores music and its interactions with human society. We shall consider the ways in which music not only reflects social structures, identities, and ideologies, but actively helps to construct them. A basic premise of the course is the intimate dialectical relationship between musical sound and social meaning, and we face the challenge not only of formulating this relationship in theoretical terms but also of demonstrating it through empirical evidence. Our discussions of the various aspects of the music-society link therefore will not neglect the analysis of the style of actual musical examples! Because of your professor’s particular research specialization, many of these examples will come from the tradition of 18th-century European art music (“art music” is a formal way of referring to what more commonly is called “classical music”). However, the basic principles of the sociology of music with which we will become familiar this semester can be applied to a broad range of musical repertoires, and you should keep this in mind as you select the topics for your semester research projects.

Prerequisites
As mentioned above, the consideration of musical style is an important element of this course, and therefore it is highly recommended that you have both an ability to read Western music notation as well as some knowledge of basic musical-theoretical concepts, such as mode, scale, dominant, tonic, and tonality. Also, you should feel fairly comfortable listening to and speaking, reading, and writing in English. (Because of the prominence of German scholarship in the field of sociology, many of our readings are of texts written originally in German. For anyone who is interested, I would like to offer an informal course in German reading in which we will study some of these original texts. Also, I am currently involved in a music-sociological project involving the examination of documents in German, and would be happy to hire one of you as an assistant if you have moderate ability in the language.)

Schedule of Class Meetings

8 Mar Overview of the Sociology of Music

Reading: John Shepherd, “Sociology of Music,” Grove Music Online

database (available through the databases link of NTU Library’s website)

15 Mar Music and Empirical Sociology

Reading: Tia Denora, “Formulating questions – the ‘music and society’

nexus,” from Music in Everyday Life

Listening: Georges Bizet, “Habañera” from Carmen; Aaron Copland,

“Fanfare for the Common Man”; Franz Schubert, Impromptu in G-flat

major; Oasis, “Cigarettes and Alcohol”

22 Mar Music Sociology and “The Production of Culture”

Reading: selections from Howard Becker, Art Worlds

Listening: to be announced

Project abstract due (approximately 250 words)

29 Mar Music as Material for Social Meaning

Reading: Richard Middleton, Studying Popular Music, introduction

Listening: to be announced

Weeks 6-9: Music and Social Class

Music and the Ancien Régime

Reading: selections from Norbert Elias, The Court Society

Listening: Jean-Baptiste Lully, Atys, Overture and Prologue

12 Apr Music, the Enlightenment, and the Rise of the Bourgeois Public

Reading: selections from Jürgen Habermas, The Structural

Transformation of the Public Sphere; Mary Hunter, “Haydn’s London

Piano Trios and His Salomon String Quartets: Private vs. Public?” from

Elaine Sisman, editor, Haydn and His World

Listening: Joseph Haydn, String Quartet, op. 71, no. 3; Haydn, Piano

Trio, Hob. 23

19 Apr Music and Aristocratic-Bourgeois Conflict in Early 19th-Century Europe

Reading: Tia Denora, “Beethoven and Social Identity” and “The

Beethoven-Wölffl Piano Duel: Aesthetic Debates and Social

Boundaries,” from Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical

Politics in Vienna, 1792-1805

Listening: selections by Ludwig van Beethoven and Joseph Wölffl

Short paper on semester research project due (approximately 4-6 pages)

26 Apr Music and the Middle Class in 19th-Century Europe

Reading: selections from William Weber, Music and the Middle Class

Listening: to be announced

Weeks 11-13: Popular Music and Contemporary Society

10 May Popular Music as Social Force

Reading: selections from Paul Willis, Profane Culture

Listening: to be announced

17 May Musical Value and Popular Music

Reading: selections from Simon Frith, Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music

Listening: to be announced

Final paper on semester research project due (approximately 10-12 pages)

24 May The Sociology of Popular Music as Critique of Modern Industrial Society

Reading: Theodor W. Adorno, “Popular Music,” from Introduction to the Sociology of Music

 

 

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