Music Sociology: Value, Technology, and Identity

Contents

• Acknowledgement
• Introduction - Music in (the Context of) Sociology
• What we mean by music sociology
• The focus of this book
• References
• Chapter 1 - Situating the Sociology of Music
• 1. A brief perspective on the discipline
• 2. The constructivist sociological approach to music
• 3. The structuralist sociological approach to music
• 4. Where do we go from here? Music as a cultural object
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 2 - The Techno-Cultural Transformations of Music in the Digital Age
• 1. Key trends of the 'digital age' of music
• 2. Framing musical experiences: from participation to branding
• 3. Streaming services and the datafication of music
• 3.1 The license model and its revenues
• 3.2 Algorithms and datafication
• 4. Streaming services, listening, and the economy of attention
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 3 - Aesthetics and Value in Music Sociology
• 1. The problems with aesthetics
• 2. Sociology and aesthetics - identifying the mediators and mediations of value
• 3. Music, genres, and the 'social'
• 3.1 What is the social anyway?
• 3.2 Music, but not without genres
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 4 - Sound Environments and Everyday Music Listening Practices
• 1. Accounting for the sounds of everyday life
• 2. Technologies of manipulation and/or of control?
• 3. A dynamic system for mediated music listening practices
• 4. Listening and the search for adequate music
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 5 - Music Taste: What is Liking Music?
• 1. The social distribution of music taste - structural homology, omnivorousness, or eclecticism?
• 1.1 Bourdieu's cultural sociology
• 1.2 Omnivorousness as a challenge to Bourdieusian sociology?
• 1.3 An increasing eclecticism for music?
• 2. Social expressions of music taste: distinction or differentiation?
• 3. Taste as activity
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 6 - Music, Identity, and Ageing
• 1. From youth to post-youth
• 2. Music and ageing identity
• 3. Music, ageing and lifestyle
• 3.1 Ageing and music scenes
• 3.2 Music, ageing, and families
• 3.3 Music, ageing and consumerism
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 7 - Popular Music Heritage
• 1. What is popular music heritage and what is it for?
• 1.1 Critical perspectives on popular music heritage
• 1.2 The forms of popular music heritage
• 1.3 Practices of popular music heritage and the canon
• 2. How does popular music heritage change the value of music?
• Conclusion
• References
• Conclusion
• References
• Index