Music, Culture, and Society A Reader

by Scott, Derek B.

• ISBN13: 9780198790112
• ISBN10: 0198790112
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This reader collects some of the most important essays on the relationship between culture and music. The topic has received enormous attention over the last few decades, transforming musicology throughout much of the Western world. These essays examine the connections between music and such diverse areas as language, the body, class, production, and consumption. Among the contributors are Jacques Attali, John Blacking, Michel Foucault, Lydia Goehr, Lawrence Kramer, Portia Maultsby, Rose Rosengard-Subotnik, Theodor Adorno, and Ero Tarasti. The collection provides an ideal introduction for students of music, sociology and cultural studies and for anyone interested in contemporary musicology.

Table of Contents

Introduction Music, Culture, and Society: Changes in Perspective	1	(20)
Derek B. Scott
PART I. MUSIC AND LANGUAGE	21	(38)
Introduction	23	(4)
An Overview	27	(6)
Harold S. Powers
On Musical Inspiration	33	(5)
Deryck Cooke
On Musical Semantics	38	(5)
Leonard Bernstein
On Musical Structuralism	43	(3)
Patricia Tunstall
On Music and Myth	46	(4)
Eero Tarasti
On the Semiotics of Music	50	(9)
Gino Stefani
References	56	(3)
PART II. MUSIC AND THE BODY Gender, Sexulity, and Ethnicity	59	(54)
Introduction	61	(4)
On the Expression of Sexuality	65	(6)
Simon Frith
Angela McRobbie
On the Representation of Sexuality	71	(6)
Jenny Taylor
Dave Laing
On Music and Masculinity	77	(6)
Charles Ford
On the Sapphonic Voice	83	(5)
Elizabeth Wood
On Black Music and Authenticity	88	(4)
David Hatch
Stephen Millward
On Africanisms	92	(5)
Portia Maultsby
On Musical Behaviour	97	(3)
John Blacking
On Music and Dance	100	(3)
Richard Leppert
On Music and Orientalism	103	(10)
Ralph P. Locke
References	110	(3)
PART III. MUSIC AND CLASS	113	(34)
Introduction	115	(3)
On Classes and Strata	118	(4)
Theodor W. Adorno
On Industrial Folksong	122	(5)
Dave Harker
On Music and Hegemony	127	(6)
Derek B. Scott
On Subculture and Homology	133	(4)
Paul Willis
On Articulating the Popular	137	(6)
Richard Middleton
On Grammer Schoolboy Music	143	(4)
Dai Griffiths
References	146	(1)
PART IV. MUSIC AND CRITICISM	147	(40)
Introduction	149	(3)
On Music and the Idea of Mass Culture	152	(5)
Graham Vulliamy
On Musical Experience	157	(4)
Lucy Green
On the Pop--Classical Split	161	(3)
Allan F. Moore
On Music and its Reception	164	(4)
Michel Foucault
Pierre Boulez
On Deconstructing Structural Listening	168	(5)
Rose Rosengard Subotnik
On Deconstructive Text--Music Relationships	173	(7)
Lawrence Kramer
On Dialectics versus Deconstruction	180	(7)
Steve Sweeney-Turner
References	184	(3)
PART V. MUSIC PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION	187	(40)
Introduction	189	(4)
On Music and its Dissemination	193	(4)
Paddy Scannell
On Phonography	197	(5)
Evan Eisenberg
On the Musical Work-Concept	202	(3)
Lydia Goehr
On the Economics of Popular Music	205	(4)
Peter Wicke
On Changing Technology	209	(4)
Peter Martin
On Musical Reproduction (Exchange-Object and Use-Object)	213	(5)
Jacques Attali
On the Negotiation of Meaning	218	(3)
John Shepherd
Jennifer Giles-Davis
On Popular Music and Postmodernism	221	(6)
Andrew Goodwin
References	225	(2)
Brief Explanatory Notes on Theory	227	(2)
Index	229