Preface
1 Introduction
2 Origins and effects
3 Ingenuity and authenticity
4 Religion and moral ambiguities
5 Subcultures and generations
6 Politics and resistance
7 Conclusion
References
Biography
Antti-Ville Villén (formerly Kärjä) is Professor of the Cultural Study of Music, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland.
The book was awarded the 2023 Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology Book Prize.
Kärjä’s project is a synthetic one; its major accomplishment is gathering together a wide-ranging network of ideas and questions and building from them a compelling wedge to drive into the thick of (ethno)musicological inquiry. The argument is…that the terms we use to organize our world are fraught, and whatever popular or sacred have come to mean falls apart under careful scrutiny— but the effects of this work could be far- reaching, particularly in a field licking its historiographical wounds and searching for a fresh way to matter…Throughout, Kärjä draws upon an astonishingly wide variety of music, from jazz to classical chamber music to David Bowie, to illustrate the dynamics of his argument.
Jake Johnson, Oklahoma City University, Yale Journal of Music and Religion, Volume 8, Number 1
