Why Music Matters

Contents

• 1 Music as Intimate and Social, Private and Public 1 2 Feeling and Flourishing 11
• 2. 1 Music, Affect, Emotion 11
• 2. 2 Emotions, Narrative Play, and Music 14
• 2. 3 Human Flourishing, Aesthetic Experience, and Music 17
• 2. 4 Musical Flourishing Beyond Contemplative Cultivation 20
• 2. 5 Musical Aesthetics and Bodily Experience: Dancing 30
• 2. 6 Approaches to Music and Emotion in Everyday Life: Contributions and Limitations 35
• 2. 7 Problems of Self-realization in Modern Life and Their Relation to Music 42
• 2. 8 Competitive Individualism and Status Competition Through Music 48
• 2. 9 Review: Music s Constrained Enrichment of Lives 53 3 Love and Sex 57
• 3. 1 Sex and Love and Rock and Roll 57
• 3. 2 Two Approaches to Music, Sex, and Sexuality 58
• 3. 3 The Pop-Rock Divide and Rock s Sexual Politics 61
• 3. 4 Post-War Pop s Emotional Resources 65
• 3. 5 Sex and Love on the Dance Floor 68
• 3. 6 Critiques of Countercultural Sexual Freedom 71
• 3. 7 Sex and Love in Punk, Alternative Rock, and Metal 74
• 3. 8 Sexuality in Twenty-First-Century Pop 77
• 3. 9 Black Music and Racialized Sexuality 81 4 Sociability and Place 84
• 4. 1 Ways of Being Together: Forms of Publicness 84
• 4. 2 Celebrations of Musical Participation and Their Limitations 87
• 4. 3 That Syncing Feeling 97
• 4. 4 Ordinary Sociability I: Singing Together 102
• 4. 5 Ordinary Sociability II: Dancing Together 109
• 4. 6 Playing Together: Amateur Musicians 112
• 4. 7 Theorizing Positive Musical Sociality 115
• 4. 8 Spectres of Capitalist Modernity Revisited: Class and Inequality 120
• 4. 9 Uneven Musical Development 123
• 4. 10 Elements of Thriving Musical Places 125
• 4. 11 Quality of Working Life of Professional Musicians 127 5 Commonality and Cosmopolitanism 130
• 5. 1 Mediated Commonality in Modern Societies 130
• 5. 2 Aesthetic Experience and Aspirations to Commonality 131
• 5. 3 Redeeming Aesthetic Experience? 133
• 5. 4 Talk About Music, What It Tells Us, and What It Doesn t 136
• 5. 5 Music, Politics, and Publicness 142
• 5. 6 Communities of Shared Taste? Subcultures, Scenes, and Fans 147
• 5. 7 Nations, Ethnicity, Cosmopolitanism 151
• 5. 8 Rock as Cosmopolitanism? 152
• 5. 9 Complexities of Music and Nation 155
• 5. 10 Strange Journeys: Working-Class and Ethnic Musics Become National Musics 157
• 5. 11 Sentimental Citizenship 162
• 5. 12 Music, the Nation, and the Popular 164
• 5. 13 Music of the African Diaspora: Life-Affirming Collectivity in Decline? 165
• 5. 14 A Critical Defense of Music 170
• Acknowledgments 172
• References 174
• Index 187