Music in Society: A Guide to the Sociology of Music

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Pendragon Press, 1987 - 488 pages
The subject of this study has two distinct but not unrelated aspects: first, an investigation into the sociology of music as an autonomous and specialized discipline; and second, an examination of certain fundamental facts that may be considered within the purview of the sociology of music itself. If an analysis and study even a preliminary one of these facts is to be properly focused and fruitful, we must first try to determine the subject and methods of the sociology of music, its position and boundaries in respect to musicology, and, most especially, its relation to the aesthetics of music and music history. It is equally indispensable to ascertain what the sociology of music as a separate scholarly discipline embraces, where its investigation leads, and, finally, to establish its position vis-a-vis sociology in general. (From the Author's Introduction.)

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Contents

The Sociology of Music and Related Disciplines
5
A Social History of Music
16
A Note on the Sociology of Music
25
Musicology Sociology Philosophy
38
I
47
Methods and Approaches
68
Introduction
81
L
87
Influence of Economic Sources on Music
238
Production of Instruments
255
Music and Social Symbolization
273
Music Ceremony and Ritual
293
Sacred and Secular Music
309
Tradition Invention and Innovation
323
Sociological Perspectives and Human Horizons
342
Bibliography
363

Types of Musical Publics
97
I
105
Social Demand
114
I
125
III
133
I
143
Early Forms of Musical Mass Culture
155
IV
165
I
171
The Mass Media and Mass Musical Culture
180
Collective Attitudes Toward Musicians
195
The Musical Profession
202
Musicians in Other Professions
211
Types of Societies and Musical Functions
224

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