Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The Cultural Study of Music is an anthology of new writings that serves as a basic textbook on music and culture. Increasingly, music is being studied as it relates to specific cultures--not only by ethnomusicologists, but by traditional musicologists as well. Drawing on writers from music, anthropology, sociology, and the related fields, the book both defines the field--i.e., "What is the relation between music and culture?"--and then presents case studies of particular issues in world musics.
Table of Contents
Music and biocultural evolution / I. Cross -- Musicology, anthropology, history / G. Tomlinson -- Music and culture : historiographies of disjuncture / P. Bohlman -- Comparing music, comparing musicology / M. Clayton -- Music and social categories / J. Shepherd -- Music and mediation : toward a new sociology of music / A. Hennion -- Music and everyday life / S. Frith -- Music, culture and creativity / J. Toynbee -- Music and psychology / E. Clarke -- Subjectivity rampant! Music, hermeneutics and history / L. Kramer -- Historical musicology : Is it still possible? / R. Wegman -- Social history and music history / T. Herbert -- Musical autonomy revisited / D. Clarke -- Textual analysis or thick description? / J.T. Titon -- Music, experience and the anthropology of emotion / R. Finnegan -- Musical materials, perception and listening / N. Dibben -- Music as performance / N. Cook -- Of mice and dogs : music, gender and sexuality at the long fin de siáecle / I. Biddle -- Contesting difference : a critique of Africanist ethnomusicology / K. Agawu -- What a difference a name makes : two instances of African-American popular music / D. Brackett -- Locating the people : music and the popular / R. Middleton -- Music education, cultural capital and social group identity / L. Green -- The cultural study of musical instruments / K. Dawe -- The destiny of 'diaspora' in ethnomusicology / M. Slobin -- Globalization and the politics of world music / M. Stokes -- Music and the market : the economics of music in the modern world / D. Laing.