Antoine Hennion, Margaret Rigaud

The Passion for Music

A Sociology of Mediation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Music is an accumulation of mediators: instruments, languages, sheets, performers, scenes, media and so on. Learning from music - this art of infinite mediations - allows us to confront sociology with a different way of considering objects. For this task, Hennion draws on aesthetics, art history, science, technology and popular music studies. He shows us that music is a collective process, which must always be performed again and again. As part of that project, he presents a wide-ranging series of case studies, restoring attention to the rich and varied intermediaries through which music is brought to life. This is the first English translation of one of the most important works of French scholarship on music and society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 801g
• ISBN-13: 9781472418104
• ISBN-10: 1472418107
• Artikelnr.: 42795209

Autorenporträt

Antoine Hennion is one of the masters of music sociology. He is well known in the Anglophone world for his many articles published in journals such as Theory, Culture and Society, Poetics and Cultural Sociology and in key edited collections, such as Cultural Musicology (2003) and Derek Scott's Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology (2009). Hennion has held many important offices in international sociology associations (such as President of the ISA Network on Arts Sociology in the mid-1990s) and is a predominant figure in French Sociology today. He has been a visiting Professor at Princeton and Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction
Lasting things: Durkheim as a founding father of the sociology of culture
Transition: restoring the mediators: one method for two programmes
Before mediation: social readings of arts
Sociology and the art object: belief, illusion, artefacts
The social history of art: reinserting the works into society
The new history of art: the social in the art work
Transition: linear causes or circular causalities?
The Baroque case: musical upheavals
Transition: 'unhappy music' which 'fade[s] away as soon as it is born'...: painting-and-objects versus music-and-society?
'What can you hear?': an ethnographic study of a solfège lesson
Transition: music as a theory of mediation
'Bach today'
Intermezzo: a sociologist at the Zénith concert hall...
Music lovers: taste as an activity
Conclusion: the representation of music: in praise of musical artifice
Epilogue: 'Vor deinen Thron'...
Bibliography
Index.