1st Edition

Whose Music? Sociology of Musical Languages

Edited By John Shepherd Copyright 1977
316 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

Whose Music? combines historical, musicological, and sociological materials and styles of analysis in ways that connect to the field of sociology. The analyses of social class systems presented here speak in translatable ways to analyses of musical forms. Not only that, both are connected to an understanding of the organizations through which works are distributed to their audiences. Perhaps... Read more
1: Media, Social Process and Music; 2: The ‘Meaning’ of Music; 3: The Musical Coding of Ideologies; 4: Musical Writing, Musical Speaking; 2: ; 5: Some Observations on the Social Stratification of Twentieth-Century Music; 6: Music and the Mass Culture Debate 1; 7: Music as a Case Study in the ‘New Sociology of Education’; 8: On Radical Culture 1; Epilogue

Biography

John Shepherd