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Music in everyday life /
The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an influence on character, social structure and action. There have, however, been few attempts to specify th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an influence on character, social structure and action. There have, however, been few attempts to specify this power empirically and to provide theoretically grounded accounts of music's structuring properties in everyday experience. Music in Everyday Life uses a series of ethnographic studies - an aerobics class, karaoke evenings, music therapy sessions and the use of background music in the retail sector - as well as in-depth interviews to show how music is a constitutive feature of human agency. Drawing together concepts from psychology, sociology and socio-linguistics it develops a theory of music's active role in the construction of personal and social life and highlights the aesthetic dimension of social order and organisation in late modern societies. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 181 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-176) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511489433 0511489439 0511009372 9780511009372 1280418826 9781280418822 051105047X 9780511050473 9786610418824 6610418829 0511149158 9780511149153 1107111099 9781107111097 0511171803 9780511171802 |