Roads to Music Sociology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Smudits, Alfred (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Musik und Gesellschaft,
• Subjects: Culture.; Mass media.; Communication.; Sociology.; Sociology of Culture.; Media Sociology.; Knowledge - Discourse.

Music sociology occupies a special position in the social and cultural sciences. The terminology alone - in German it is 'Musiksoziologie' and not 'Soziologie der Musik' - indicates many possible approaches: Is 'music sociology' a subdiscipline within sociology or music...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Musicology, Sociology and Digitisation
• From Mediation to Pragmatism: making sociology sensitive again to the value of things?- "Exploring Gender in Music ... to Better Grasp Musical Work"
• Musical Cosmopolitanism, Bodies and Aesthetic Cultures
• Musical Language
• The Unsung Work of Music Sociology?
• Music Sociology in the GDR: under conditions of political dictatorship, despite of political dictatorship.