Music, Culture, and Society: A Reader

by Derek B. Scott

Overview

This reader collects some of the most important essays on the relationship between culture and music. The topic has received enormous attention over the last few decades, transforming musicology throughout much of the Western world. The essays examine the connections between music and such diverse areas as language, the body, class, production, and consumption. Among the contributors are Jacques Attali, John Blacking, Michel Foucault, Lydia Goehr, Lawrence Kramer, Portia Maultsby, Rose Rosengard-Subotnik, Theodor Adorno, and Ero Tarasti. The collection provides an ideal introduction for students of music, sociology and cultural studies and for anyone interested in contemporary musicology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198790129
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/08/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.06(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Music, Culture, and Society: Changes in Perspective, Derek B. ScottPart I. MUSIC AND LANGUAGEIntroductionAn Overview, Harold S. PowersOn Musical Inspiration, Deryck CookeOn Musical Semantics, Leonard BernsteinOn Musical Structuralism, Patricia TunstallOn Music and Myth, Eero TarastiOn the Semiotics of Music, Gino StefaniReferencesPart II. MUSIC AND THE BODY: Gender, Sexuality, and EthnicityIntroductionOn the Expression of Sexuality, Simon Frith and Angela McRobbieOn the Representation of Sexuality, Jenny Taylor and Dave LaingOn Music and Masculinity, Charles FordOn the Sapphonic voice, Elizabeth WoodOn Black Music and Authenticity, David Hatch and Stephan MillwardOn Africanisms, Portia MaultsbyOn Musical Behaviour, John BlackingOn Music and Dance, Richard LeppertOn Music and Orientalism, Ralph P. LockeReferencesPart III. MUSIC AND CLASSIntroductionOn Classes and Strata, Theodor W. AdornoOn Industrial Folksong, Dave HarkerOn Music and Hegemony, Derek B. ScottOn Subculture and Homology, Paul WillisOn Articulating the Popular, Richard MiddletonOn Grammar Schoolboy Music, Dai GriffithsReferencesPart IV. MUSIC AND CRITICISMIntroductionOn Music and the Idea of Mass Culture, Graham VulliamyOn Musical Experience, Lucy GreenOn the Pop-Classical Split, Allan F. MooreOn Music and its Reception, Michel Foucault and Pierre BoulezOn Deconstructing Structural Listening, Rose Rosengard SubotnikOn Deconstructive Text-Music Relationships, Lawrence KramerOn Dialectics versus Deconstruction, Steve Sweeney-TurnerReferencesPart V. MUSIC PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTIONIntroductionOn Music and its Dissemination, Paddy ScannellOn Phonography, Evan EisenbergOn the Musical Work-Concept, Lydia GoehrOn the Economics of Popular Music, Peter WickeOn Changing Technology, Peter MartinOn Musical Reproduction (Exchange-Object and Use-Object), Jacques AttaliOn the Negotiation of Meaning, John Shepherd and Jennifer Giles-DavisOn Popular Music and Postmodernism, Andrew GoodwinReferencesBrief Explanatory Notes on TheoryIndex