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The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction

  • Editor: Clayton, Martin
  • Editor: Herbert, Trevor
  • Editor: Middleton, Richard
The strength of the text is its breadth of analysis: the essays are brief, pithy, and thought-provoking. Recommended

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Contents

  • Introduction Music Studies and the Idea of Culture Richard Middleton
  • Part 1 : When? Musical Histories
  • 1. Music and Biocultural Evolution Ian Cross
  • 2. Music and Culture: Historiographies of Disjuncture, Ethnographies of Displacement Philip V. Bohlman
  • 3. Historical Musicology: Is It Still Possible? Rob C. Wegman
  • 4. Social History and Music History Trevor Herbert
  • 5. Musicology, Anthropology, History Gary Tomlinson
  • Part 2 : Where? Locations of Music
  • 6. Textual Analysis or Thick Description? Jeff Todd Titon
  • 7. Comparing Music, Comparing Musicology Martin Clayton
  • 8. The Destiny of "Diaspora" in Ethnomusicology Mark Slobin
  • 9. Globalization and the Politics of World Music Martin Stokes
  • 10. Contesting Difference: A Critique of Africanist Ethnomusicology Kofi Agawu
  • 11. What a Difference a Name Makes: Two Instances of African-American Popular Music David Brackett
  • 12. Music, Space, and Place: The Geography of Music Adam Krims
  • 13. Music and Everyday Life Simon Frith
  • Part 3 : How? Processes, Practices, and Institutions of Music
  • 14. Music, Culture, and Creativity Jason Toynbee
  • 15. Musical Autonomy Revisited David Clarke
  • 16. Music as Performance Nick Cook
  • 17. The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments Kevin Dawe
  • 18. Music Education, Cultural Capital, and Social Group Identity Lucy Green
  • 19. Music Technology, or Technologies of Music? Bennett Hogg
  • 20. Music and Material Culture Will Straw
  • Part 4 : Whose? Social Forces and Musical Belongings
  • 21. Music and Social Categories John Shepherd
  • 22. Music and Mediation: Toward a New Sociology of Music Antoine Hennion
  • 23. Music and the Social Georgina Born
  • 24. Locating the People: Music and the Popular Richard Middleton
  • 25. Music and the Market: The Economics of Music in the Modern World Dave Laing
  • 26. Music, Sound, and Religion Jeffers Engelhardt
  • 27. Music, Race, and the Fields of Public Culture Ronald Radano
  • 28. Music, Gender, and Sexuality Fred E. Maus
  • Part 5 : Who? Musical subjectivities
  • 29. What's Going On: Music, Psychology, and Ecological Theory Eric F. Clarke
  • 30. Musical Materials, Perception, and Listening Nicola Dibben
  • 31. Music, Experience, and the Anthropology of Emotion Ruth Finnegan
  • 32. Towards a Political Aesthetics of Music David Hesmondhalgh
  • 33. Music and the Subject: Three Takes John Mowitt
  • 34. Of Mice and Dogs: Music, Gender, and Sexuality at the Long Fin de Siecle Ian Biddle
  • 35. Subjectivity Unbound: Music, Language, Culture Lawrence Kramer