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Music sociology occupies a special position in the social and cultural sciences. The terminology alone – in German it is ‘Musiksoziologie’ and not ‘Soziologie der Musik’ – indicates many possible approaches: Is ‘music sociology’ a subdiscipline within sociology or musicology? Or is it a discipline on its own, espousing significant differences from sociology and musicology alike? On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the Department of Music Sociology at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna – probably the only one in the world to bear the name as a separate department – decided to clarify the state of music sociology. Some of the world’s most prominent representatives of the discipline were invited to participate in this project and present their own viewpoints on the various approaches to music sociology. Their contributions address the particular research objects of music sociology (institutions of musical life; production, distribution and consumption of music; music-making; ‘works’, genres and repertoires; etc.) as well as the different methods of research (stock-taking, surveys, interviews, music analysis, biographical research, etc.).
- About the authors
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Prof. Dr. Alfred Smudits is head of the Department of Music Sociology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-6
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Music Sociology After Mass Modernity
Pages 7-21
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Musicology, Sociology and Digitisation
Pages 23-39
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Objects, Belief, and the Sociologist: The Sociology of Art as a Work-To-Be-Done
Pages 41-60
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Exploring Gender in Music … to Better Grasp Musical Work
Pages 61-77
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Roads to Music Sociology
- Editors
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- Alfred Smudits
- Series Title
- Musik und Gesellschaft
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-658-22279-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-658-22279-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-658-22278-9
- Series ISSN
- 0259-076X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 158
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
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