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Music sociology : examining the role of music in social life / edited by Sara Towe Horsfall, Jan-Martijn Meij, and Meghan D. Probstfield.

Contributor(s): Horsfall, Sara | Meij, Jan-Martijn | Probstfield, Meghan D.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookDescription: xxiv, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781612053127 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Music -- Social aspects | Music -- Philosophy and aestheticsDDC classification:
Contents:
I. Journey into American music : -- 1. A universal body of folk music, a technical argument / Paul Robeson -- 2. Five important moments in American musical history, the rest of the story / Sara Towe Horsfall -- 3. American popular song / Howard S. Becker -- 4. The industrialization of popular music, part I / Simon Frith -- 5. What is sociological about music? / William G. Roy and Timothy J. Dowd. 505 0 $a II. Experience of music: ritual and authenticity : -- 6. Music as ritual: a hotline to collective conscious / Sara Towe Horsfall -- 7. Moving past violence and vulgarity: structural ritualization and constructed meaning in the heavy metal subculture / Jan-Martijn Meij, Meghan D. Probstfield, Joseph M. Simpson, and J. David Knottnerus -- 8. Authenticity in Latino music: scenes of place / Kathryn M. Nowotny, Jennifer L. Fackler, Gianncarlo Muschi, Carol Vargas, Lindsey Wilson, and Joseph A. Kotarba -- 9. The jazz solo as ritual: conforming to the conventions of innovation / Roscoe C. Scarborough. 505 0 $a III. Experience of music: stratification and identity : -- 10. Race / Russell A. Potter -- 11. (Re)Presentin' the tragic mulatto: an analysis of multiracial identity in rap music / Matthew Oware -- 12. Skinhead identity contested: ska music, racism, and youth culture / Daniel Sarabia -- 13. Lowbrow entertainment to highbrow art form: the case of jazz and heavy metal / Roscoe C. Scarborough.
IV. Experience of music: subcultures and musical enclaves : -- 14. Sect and prophets / Neil Leonard -- 15. Hardcore: an ethnographic study of an evolving music subculture / Kerry Hendricks -- 16. Not fade away: ritual solidarity and persistence in the jamband community / Pamela M. Hunt -- 17. Taqwacore: an introduction to Muslim American punk rock / Sarah S. Hosman.
V. Music as social change and commentary : -- 18. Hitler, the holocaust and heavy metal music: holocaust memory and representation in the heavy metal subculture, 1980-present / Mark A. Mengerink -- 19. Painful listening: the musical noise and cultural transcendence of Southern Italian Tarantism / Lee Robert Blackstone -- 20. An international comparison of the politics of straight-edge / William Tsitsos -- 21. Sing out! Collective singing rituals of folk protest music in US social movements / Jeneve R. Brooks.
VI. Commodification of music : -- 22. The industrialization of popular music, part II / Simon Frith -- 23. Authenticity and independence in rap music and other genre communities / Jennifer C. Lena -- 24. "A Piece of Art is Not a Loaf of Bread": indie rock's challenge to commodification / Jeffrey Nathanial Parker -- 25. Operating outside the music industry: strategies of production in a scene-based music genre / Diana Miller -- 26. Why pay for music? How college students rationalize illegal downloading / Jason S. Ulsperger, Kristen Ulsperger, and Stan H. Hodges.
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Includes bibliographical references ( pages 269-296) and index.

I. Journey into American music : -- 1. A universal body of folk music, a technical argument / Paul Robeson -- 2. Five important moments in American musical history, the rest of the story / Sara Towe Horsfall -- 3. American popular song / Howard S. Becker -- 4. The industrialization of popular music, part I / Simon Frith -- 5. What is sociological about music? / William G. Roy and Timothy J. Dowd. 505 0 $a II. Experience of music: ritual and authenticity : -- 6. Music as ritual: a hotline to collective conscious / Sara Towe Horsfall -- 7. Moving past violence and vulgarity: structural ritualization and constructed meaning in the heavy metal subculture / Jan-Martijn Meij, Meghan D. Probstfield, Joseph M. Simpson, and J. David Knottnerus -- 8. Authenticity in Latino music: scenes of place / Kathryn M. Nowotny, Jennifer L. Fackler, Gianncarlo Muschi, Carol Vargas, Lindsey Wilson, and Joseph A. Kotarba -- 9. The jazz solo as ritual: conforming to the conventions of innovation / Roscoe C. Scarborough. 505 0 $a III. Experience of music: stratification and identity : -- 10. Race / Russell A. Potter -- 11. (Re)Presentin' the tragic mulatto: an analysis of multiracial identity in rap music / Matthew Oware -- 12. Skinhead identity contested: ska music, racism, and youth culture / Daniel Sarabia -- 13. Lowbrow entertainment to highbrow art form: the case of jazz and heavy metal / Roscoe C. Scarborough.

IV. Experience of music: subcultures and musical enclaves : -- 14. Sect and prophets / Neil Leonard -- 15. Hardcore: an ethnographic study of an evolving music subculture / Kerry Hendricks -- 16. Not fade away: ritual solidarity and persistence in the jamband community / Pamela M. Hunt -- 17. Taqwacore: an introduction to Muslim American punk rock / Sarah S. Hosman.

V. Music as social change and commentary : -- 18. Hitler, the holocaust and heavy metal music: holocaust memory and representation in the heavy metal subculture, 1980-present / Mark A. Mengerink -- 19. Painful listening: the musical noise and cultural transcendence of Southern Italian Tarantism / Lee Robert Blackstone -- 20. An international comparison of the politics of straight-edge / William Tsitsos -- 21. Sing out! Collective singing rituals of folk protest music in US social movements / Jeneve R. Brooks.

VI. Commodification of music : -- 22. The industrialization of popular music, part II / Simon Frith -- 23. Authenticity and independence in rap music and other genre communities / Jennifer C. Lena -- 24. "A Piece of Art is Not a Loaf of Bread": indie rock's challenge to commodification / Jeffrey Nathanial Parker -- 25. Operating outside the music industry: strategies of production in a scene-based music genre / Diana Miller -- 26. Why pay for music? How college students rationalize illegal downloading / Jason S. Ulsperger, Kristen Ulsperger, and Stan H. Hodges.

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