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Oct 24, 2023 · This article examines the relationship between music and sociological thinking. Antoine Hennion has shown that learning to play music involves an immersion within a culture that has rules, languages and rituals and as a result ‘music is a form of sociology’ (Hennion Citation 2020, 292).
The argument is that popular music cannot be analysed using only the traditional tools of musicology. This is because popular music, unlike art music, is (1) conceived for mass distribution to large and often socioculturally heterogeneous groups of listeners, (2) stored and distri-buted in non-written form, (3) only possible in an industrial ...
Reporting from one such ghetto, this paper considers some of the ways in which the sociology of popular music has been limited by its positioning within an interdisciplinary environment and suggests two strategies for developing a more fully-realized sociology of popular music.
Dec 1, 2018 · Andrew Chester’s “For a Rock Aesthetic”, published in New Left Review in 1970 is an example. Popular music studies, however, also produced works in Eastern Europe at around the same time,...
May 24, 2017 · Bringing occupational and organizational sociology into the sociology of popular music, Richard A. Peterson demonstrated the internal logic of cultural production in terms of risk and reward (see Anthologies).
Jun 25, 2020 · The ways that music creates bridges and boundaries between people has long been of interest in the sociology of music, and a core problem is understanding patterns in relationships between consumers and producers.
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Musicology and popular music research Studying popular music is an interdisciplinary matter. Musicology still lags behind other disciplines in the field, especially sociology. The musicologist is thus at a simul-taneous disadvantage and advantage. The advantage is that he/she can draw on soci-ological research to give the analysis proper ...