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Cultural Study of Music A Critical Introduction

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ISBN-10: 0415938457

ISBN-13: 9780415938457

Edition: 2003

Authors: Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, Richard Middleton

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Drawing on writers from music, anthropology, sociology & related fields, this collection is an anthology of new writings that define the relation between music & culture. This book represents the latest thinking on the complex issues surrounding how music & culture interrelate.
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Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/3/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Martin Clayton is Professor in Ethnomusicology at Durham University.Richard Middletown is Emeritus Professor of Music at Newcastle University.Trevor Herbert is Professor of Music at The Open University.

Introduction
Music Studies and the Idea of Culture
Music and Culture
Music and Biocultural Evolution
Musicology, Anthropology, History
Music and Culture: Historiographies of Disjuncture
Comparing Music, Comparing Musicology
Music and Social Categories
Music and Mediation: Toward a New Sociology of Music
Music and Everyday Life
Music, Culture, and Creativity
Music and Psychology
Subjectivity Rampant! Music, Hermeneutics, and History
Historical Musicology: Is It Still Possible?
Social History and Music History
Issues and Debates
Musical Autonomy Revisited
Textual Analysis or Thick Description?
Music, Experience, and the Anthropology of Emotion
Musical Materials, Perception, and Listening
Music as Performance
Of Mice and Dogs: Music, Gender, and Sexuality at the Long Fin de Siecle
Contesting Difference: A Critique of Africanist Ethnomusicology
What a Difference a Name Makes: Two Instances of African-American Popular Music
Locating the People: Music and the Popular
Music Education, Cultural Capital, and Social Group Identity
The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments
The Destiny of "Diaspora" in Ethnomusicology
Globalization and the Politics of World Music
Music and the Market: The Economics of Music in the Modern World
References
Notes on Contributors
Index