Music Sociology: Value, Technology, and Identity
- Author: Bennett, Andy
- Author: Nowak, Raphael
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Contents
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction - Music in (the Context of) Sociology
- What we mean by music sociology
- The focus of this book
- References
- Chapter 1 - Situating the Sociology of Music
- 1. A brief perspective on the discipline
- 2. The constructivist sociological approach to music
- 3. The structuralist sociological approach to music
- 4. Where do we go from here? Music as a cultural object
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 2 - The Techno-Cultural Transformations of Music in the Digital Age
- 1. Key trends of the 'digital age' of music
- 2. Framing musical experiences: from participation to branding
- 3. Streaming services and the datafication of music
- 3.1 The license model and its revenues
- 3.2 Algorithms and datafication
- 4. Streaming services, listening, and the economy of attention
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3 - Aesthetics and Value in Music Sociology
- 1. The problems with aesthetics
- 2. Sociology and aesthetics - identifying the mediators and mediations of value
- 3. Music, genres, and the 'social'
- 3.1 What is the social anyway?
- 3.2 Music, but not without genres
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4 - Sound Environments and Everyday Music Listening Practices
- 1. Accounting for the sounds of everyday life
- 2. Technologies of manipulation and/or of control?
- 3. A dynamic system for mediated music listening practices
- 4. Listening and the search for adequate music
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 5 - Music Taste: What is Liking Music?
- 1. The social distribution of music taste - structural homology, omnivorousness, or eclecticism?
- 1.1 Bourdieu's cultural sociology
- 1.2 Omnivorousness as a challenge to Bourdieusian sociology?
- 1.3 An increasing eclecticism for music?
- 2. Social expressions of music taste: distinction or differentiation?
- 3. Taste as activity
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 6 - Music, Identity, and Ageing
- 1. From youth to post-youth
- 2. Music and ageing identity
- 3. Music, ageing and lifestyle
- 3.1 Ageing and music scenes
- 3.2 Music, ageing, and families
- 3.3 Music, ageing and consumerism
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 7 - Popular Music Heritage
- 1. What is popular music heritage and what is it for?
- 1.1 Critical perspectives on popular music heritage
- 1.2 The forms of popular music heritage
- 1.3 Practices of popular music heritage and the canon
- 2. How does popular music heritage change the value of music?
- Conclusion
- References
- Conclusion
- References
- Index