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The Sociology of Music » Read Now
by Alphons Silbermann, Corbet Stewart. 230 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...THE SOCIOLOGY OF MUSIC INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF SOCIOLOGY...found at the end of this volume The Sociology of Music by Alphons Silbermann Translated...of music, the...
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Philosophical Perspectives on Music (Chap. 7 "Music as Social and Political Force") » Read Now
by Wayne D. Bowman. 488 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

An introduction to diverse philosophical perspectives on the nature and value of music, ranging from the ancient Greeks to idealism to phenomenology to contemporary socio-cultural critiques. Designed to introduce the serious music student with no philosophical background to the vitality of music...
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An introduction to diverse philosophical perspectives on the nature and value of music, ranging from the ancient Greeks to idealism to phenomenology to contemporary socio-cultural critiques. Designed to introduce the serious music student with no philosophical background to the vitality of music philosophical discourse, it explores a broad range of music philosophical terrain, showing the philsophers' reasons for holding what can seem to the non-philosopher like extraordinarily bizarre notions, while at the same time pointing out the philosophical shortcomings of what musicians often take for common-sense musical truths.
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The Rational and Social Foundations of Music » Read Now
by Max Weber, Don Martindale, Johannes Riedel, Gertrude Neuwirth. 148 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...the social critic. The modern sociology of music is the disciplined contemporary...interest in Weber and the sociology of music has continued to grow. Johannes...asked to...
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The Social Status of the Professional Musician from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century » Read Now
by Walter Salmen, Herbert Kaufman, Barbara Reisner. 281 pgs.

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...Kaufman and Barbara Reisner SOCIOLOGY OF MUSIC NO.1 PENDRAGON PRESS New York Other titles in the Sociology of Music Series: Music and Society: A guide to the Sociology of...
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Music & Poetry in the Early Tudor Court » Read Now
by John E. Stevens. 486 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...I first began to see the problems of music and poetry in a proper social context...and treatment is found also in the music of the two kinds of carol. A certain...and...
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Neither Voice nor Heart Alone: German Lutheran Theology of Music in the Age of the Baroque » Read Now
by Joyce L. Irwin. 212 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Alone German Lutheran Theology of Music in the Age of the Baroque PETER...heart alone : German Lutheran theology of music in the age of the Baroque / Joyce...heart alone :...
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Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945 » Read Now
by William Howland Kenney. 260 pgs.

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Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historical and cultural influences flowed through them? Do recording machines simply capture what's already out there, or is the music somehow...
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Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historical and cultural influences flowed through them? Do recording machines simply capture what's already out there, or is the music somehow transformed in the dual process of documentation and dissemination? How would our lives be different without these machines? Such are the questions that arise when we stop taking for granted the phenomenon of recorded music and the phonograph itself. Now comes an in-depth cultural history of the phonograph in the United States from 1890 to 1945. William Howland Kenney offers a full account of what he calls "the 78 r.p.m. era"--from the formative early decades in which the giants of the record industry reigned supreme in the absence of radio, to the postwar proliferation of independent labels, disk jockeys, and changes in popular taste and opinion. By examining the interplay between recorded music and the key social, political, and economic forces in America during the phonograph's rise and fall as the dominant medium of popular recorded sound, he addresses such vital issues as the place of multiculturalism in the phonograph's history, the roles of women as record-player listeners and performers, the belated commercial legitimacy of rhythm-and-blues recordings, the "hit record" phenomenon in the wake of the Great Depression, the origins of the rock-and-roll revolution, and the shifting place of popular recorded music in America's personal and cultural memories. Throughout the book, Kenney argues that the phonograph and the recording industry served neither to impose a preference for high culture nor a degraded popular taste, but rather expressed a diverse set of sensibilities in which various sorts of people found a new kind of pleasure. To this end, Recorded Music in American Life effectively illustrates how recorded music provided the focus for active recorded sound cultures, in which listeners shared what they heard, and expressed crucial dimensions of their private lives, by way of their involvement with records and record-players. Students and scholars of American music, culture, commerce, and history--as well as fans and collectors interested in this phase of our rich artistic past--will find a great deal of thorough research and fresh scholarship to enjoy in these pages.
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Songs of the Vietnam Conflict » Read Now
by James Perone. 173 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Offering the widest scope of any study of one of popular music's most important eras, Songs of the Vietnam Conflict treats both anti-war and pro-government songs of the 1960s and early 1970s, from widely known selections such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Blowin' in the Wind" to a variety of more...
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Offering the widest scope of any study of one of popular music's most important eras, Songs of the Vietnam Conflict treats both anti-war and pro-government songs of the 1960s and early 1970s, from widely known selections such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Blowin' in the Wind" to a variety of more obscure works. These are songs that permeated the culture, through both recordings and performances at political gatherings and concerts alike, and James Perone explores the complex relationship between music and the society in which it is written. This music is not merely an indicator of the development of the American popular song; it both reflected and shaped the attitudes of all who were exposed to it.
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"A Deeper Territory": Race, Gender, Historical Narrative and the Recorded Field Blues, in The Western Journal of Black Studies » Read Now
by Bill Pincheon. 12 pgs.

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...refers to as "interruptions." Yet Silberman in The Sociology of Music (1963) would note that as the social fact: the...Indiana University Press. Silberman, A. (1963). The...
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Yankee Blues: Musical Culture and American Identity » Read Now
by MacDonald Smith Moore. 216 pgs.

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...the social and spiritual potential of music in his familys Yankee lineage. Masons...fresh sea breeze. 11 In his ideal of music as the key to redemptive culture...adjust to...
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Music in American Life, Present & Future » Read Now
by Augustus Delafield Zanzig. 560 pgs.

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...individual initiative in the production of music be compensated? Obviously only through...children have only eight teachers of music. On the other hand, there is the...in...
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The Mass Society and Group Action Theories of Cultural Production: The Case of Stylistic Innovation in Jazz, in Social Forces » Read Now
by Lars Bjorn. 18 pgs.

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...Frankfurt School of sociology (Swingewood...his work on music. To Adorno...Introduction to the Sociology of Music . New York...Whos Who of Jazz . Philadelphia...McKinneys...
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Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle over Western Music » Read Now
by Richard Curt Kraus. 294 pgs.

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In China, a nation where the worlds of politics and art are closely linked, Western classical music was considered during the cultural revolution to be an imperialist intrusion, in direct conflict with the native aesthetic. In this revealing chronicle of the relationship between music and politics...
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In China, a nation where the worlds of politics and art are closely linked, Western classical music was considered during the cultural revolution to be an imperialist intrusion, in direct conflict with the native aesthetic. In this revealing chronicle of the relationship between music and politics in twentieth-century China, Richard Kraus examines the evolution of China's ever-changing disposition towards European music and demonstrates the steady westernization of Chinese music. Placing China's cultural conflicts in global perspective, he traces the lives of four Chinese musicians and reflects on how their experiences are indicative of China's place at the furthest edge of an expanding Western international order.
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Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948: A Social History » Read Now
by Jehoash Hirshberg. 298 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...This book presents a social history of the music of the Jewish community in Palestine from the beginnings of Jewish immigration to Palestine in 1880 to the declaration of...