David Hesmondhalgh

Why Music Matters (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Listen to David Hesmondhalgh discuss the arguments at the core of 'Why Music Matters' with Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03q9q2n/Thinking_Allowed_Why_Music_Matters_Bhangra_and_Belonging/ In what ways might music enrich the lives of people and of societies? What prevents it from doing so? Why Music Matters explores the role of music in our lives, and investigates the social and political significance of music in modern societies. * First book of its kind to explore music through a variety of theories and approaches and unite these theories using one authoritative voice * Combines a broad yet theoretically sophisticated approach to music and society with real clarity and accessibility * A historically and sociologically informed understanding of music in relation to questions of social power and inequality * By drawing on both popular and academic talk about a range of musical forms and practices, readers will engage with a wide musical terrain and a wealth of case studies

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118535813
• Artikelnr.: 39041643

Autorenporträt

David Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media and Music Industries at the University of Leeds. He is the author of The Cultural Industries, now in its third edition (2013) and co-author (with Sarah Baker) of a study of working life in three cultural industries, including music, Creative Labour (2011). He is also the editor or co-editor of various collections, including Western Music and its Others (with Georgina Born, 2000) and Popular Music Studies (with Keith Negus, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1 Music as Intimate and Social, Private and Public 1 2 Feeling and
Flourishing 11 2.1 Music, Affect, Emotion 11 2.2 Emotions, Narrative Play,
and Music 14 2.3 Human Flourishing, Aesthetic Experience, and Music 17 2.4
Musical Flourishing Beyond Contemplative Cultivation 20 2.5 Musical
Aesthetics and Bodily Experience: Dancing 30 2.6 Approaches to Music and
Emotion in Everyday Life: Contributions and Limitations 35 2.7 Problems of
Self-realization in Modern Life and Their Relation to Music 42 2.8
Competitive Individualism and Status Competition Through Music 48 2.9
Review: Music's Constrained Enrichment of Lives 53 3 Love and Sex 57 3.1
Sex and Love and Rock and Roll 57 3.2 Two Approaches to Music, Sex, and
Sexuality 58 3.3 The Pop-Rock Divide and Rock's Sexual Politics 61 3.4
Post-War Pop's Emotional Resources 65 3.5 Sex and Love on the Dance Floor
68 3.6 Critiques of Countercultural Sexual Freedom 71 3.7 Sex and Love in
Punk, Alternative Rock, and Metal 74 3.8 Sexuality in Twenty-First-Century
Pop 77 3.9 Black Music and Racialized Sexuality 81 4 Sociability and Place
84 4.1 Ways of Being Together: Forms of Publicness 84 4.2 Celebrations of
Musical Participation and Their Limitations 87 4.3 That Syncing Feeling 97
4.4 Ordinary Sociability I: Singing Together 102 4.5 Ordinary Sociability
II: Dancing Together 109 4.6 Playing Together: Amateur Musicians 112 4.7
Theorizing Positive Musical Sociality 115 4.8 Spectres of Capitalist
Modernity Revisited: Class and Inequality 120 4.9 Uneven Musical
Development 123 4.10 Elements of Thriving Musical Places 125 4.11 Quality
of Working Life of Professional Musicians 127 5 Commonality and
Cosmopolitanism 130 5.1 Mediated Commonality in Modern Societies 130 5.2
Aesthetic Experience and Aspirations to Commonality 131 5.3 Redeeming
Aesthetic Experience? 133 5.4 Talk About Music, What It Tells Us, and What
It Doesn't 136 5.5 Music, Politics, and Publicness 142 5.6 Communities of
Shared Taste? Subcultures, Scenes, and Fans 147 5.7 Nations, Ethnicity,
Cosmopolitanism 151 5.8 Rock as Cosmopolitanism? 152 5.9 Complexities of
Music and Nation 155 5.10 Strange Journeys: Working-Class and Ethnic Musics
Become National Musics 157 5.11 Sentimental Citizenship 162 5.12 Music, the
Nation, and the Popular 164 5.13 Music of the African Diaspora:
Life-Affirming Collectivity in Decline? 165 5.14 A Critical Defense of
Music 170 Acknowledgments 172 References 174 Index 187

Rezensionen

"Most notably the book is ambivalent about much of the promises claimed by the advocates of music's transformative potential, but is never bleak, retaining a refreshing realism about the capacity of music to matter to people, publics and nations across the world." (New Books In Critical Theory, 19 June 2014)