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Roads to Music Sociology

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Editors:
  1. Alfred Smudits

    1. Institut für Musiksoziologie, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien, Austria

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  • About the insights into societies by music sociology
  • Music Sociology and its function in the sociological discourse
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Part of the book series: Musik und Gesellschaft (MUGE)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
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  2. Introduction

    • Alfred Smudits
    Pages 1-6

  3. Music Sociology After Mass Modernity

    • Alfred Smudits
    Pages 7-21

  4. Musicology, Sociology and Digitisation

    • Peter J. Martin
    Pages 23-39

  5. Objects, Belief, and the Sociologist: The Sociology of Art as a Work-To-Be-Done

    • Antoine Hennion
    Pages 41-60

  6. Exploring Gender in Music … to Better Grasp Musical Work

    • Marie Buscatto
    Pages 61-77

  7. Musical Cosmopolitanism, Bodies and Aesthetic Cultures

    • Motti Regev
    Pages 79-94

  8. Musical Language

    • Howard S. Becker
    Pages 95-109

  9. The Unsung Work of Music Sociology?

    • Tia DeNora
    Pages 111-137

  10. Music Sociology in the GDR: Under Conditions of Political Dictatorship, Despite of Political Dictatorship

    • Christian Kaden
    Pages 139-158
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About this book

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 musicology? Or is it a discipline on its own, espousing significant differences from sociology and musicology alike? On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the Department of Music Sociology at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna – probably the only one in the world to bear the name as a separate department – decided to clarify the state of music sociology. Some of the world’s most prominent representatives of the discipline were invited to participate in this project and present their own viewpoints on the various approaches to music sociology. Their contributions address the particular research objects of music sociology (institutions of musical life; production, distribution and consumption of music;music-making; ‘works’, genres and repertoires; etc.) as well as the different methods of research (stock-taking, surveys, interviews, music analysis, biographical research, etc.).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Musiksoziologie, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien, Austria

    Alfred Smudits

About the editor

Prof. Dr. Alfred Smudits is head of the Department of Music Sociology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Roads to Music Sociology

  • Editors: Alfred Smudits

  • Series Title: Musik und Gesellschaft

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22279-6

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-22278-9Published: 30 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-22279-6Published: 28 August 2018

  • Series ISSN: 0259-076X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2522-8331

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 158

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Culture, Media Sociology, Knowledge - Discourse

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