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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

Intellectual Property

Medical Tourism

Books Mass Communication

Syllabus

Lyrics with social content

Bibliography

Articles and Interviews - Music

Journals

Articles and Interviews - Film and TV

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