Whose Music?: A Sociology of Musical LanguagesWhose 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 most importantly for the contemporary reader, this book depicts the part of the process by which dominant class groups justify their domination--cultural and otherwise. |
Contents
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The Meaning of Music | 53 |
The Musical Coding of Ideologies | 69 |
Musical Writing Musical Speaking | 125 |
PART TWO | 155 |
Music and the Mass Culture Debate | 179 |
Music as a Case Study in the New Sociology of Education | 201 |
On Radical Culture | 233 |
Epilogue | 257 |
| 259 | |
Explanation of Musical Terminology | 267 |
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