Music, Culture, and Society - A Reader

Coletanêa de textos que reúnem alguns dos ensaios mais importantes sobre a relação entre cultura e música.
O assunto tem recebido enorme atenção nas últimas décadas, transformando a musicologia em grande parte do mundo ocidental.
Os ensaios examinam as conexões entre a música e áreas diversas como a linguagem, o corpo, a classe, a produção e o consumo.
Entre os contribuintes estão Jacques Attali, John Blacking, Michel Foucault, Lydia Goehr, Lawrence Kramer, Portia Maultsby, Rose Rosengard-Subotnik, Theodor Adorno e Ero Tarasti. A coleção oferece uma introdução ideal para estudantes de música, sociologia e estudos culturais e para qualquer pessoa interessada em musicologia contemporânea.
INDICE:
Introduction: Music, Culture, and Society: Changes in Perspective, Derek B. Scott
Part I. MUSIC AND LANGUAGE
Introduction
An Overview, Harold S. Powers
On Musical Inspiration, Deryck Cooke
On Musical Semantics, Leonard Bernstein
On Musical Structuralism, Patricia Tunstall
On Music and Myth, Eero Tarasti
On the Semiotics of Music, Gino Stefani
References
Part II. MUSIC AND THE BODY: Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
Introduction
On the Expression of Sexuality, Simon Frith and Angela McRobbie
On the Representation of Sexuality, Jenny Taylor and Dave Laing
On Music and Masculinity, Charles Ford
On the Sapphonic voice, Elizabeth Wood
On Black Music and Authenticity, David Hatch and Stephan Millward
On Africanisms, Portia Maultsby
On Musical Behaviour, John Blacking
On Music and Dance, Richard Leppert
On Music and Orientalism, Ralph P. Locke
References
Part III. MUSIC AND CLASS
Introduction
On Classes and Strata, Theodor W. Adorno
On Industrial Folksong, Dave Harker
On Music and Hegemony, Derek B. Scott
On Subculture and Homology, Paul Willis
On Articulating the Popular, Richard Middleton
On Grammar Schoolboy Music, Dai Griffiths
References
Part IV. MUSIC AND CRITICISM
Introduction
On Music and the Idea of Mass Culture, Graham Vulliamy
On Musical Experience, Lucy Green
On the Pop-Classical Split, Allan F. Moore
On Music and its Reception, Michel Foucault and Pierre Boulez
On Deconstructing Structural Listening, Rose Rosengard Subotnik
On Deconstructive Text-Music Relationships, Lawrence Kramer
On Dialectics versus Deconstruction, Steve Sweeney-Turner
References
Part V. MUSIC PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
Introduction
On Music and its Dissemination, Paddy Scannell
On Phonography, Evan Eisenberg
On the Musical Work-Concept, Lydia Goehr
On the Economics of Popular Music, Peter Wicke
On Changing Technology, Peter Martin
On Musical Reproduction (Exchange-Object and Use-Object), Jacques Attali
On the Negotiation of Meaning, John Shepherd and Jennifer Giles-Davis
On Popular Music and Postmodernism, Andrew Goodwin
References
Brief Explanatory Notes on Theory
Index