The Passion for Music: A Sociology of Mediation
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The Passion for Music: A Sociology of Mediation

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The Passion for Music: A Sociology of Mediation

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Music is an accumulation of mediators: instruments, languages, sheets, performers, scenes, media and so on. There is no musical objectin itself; music must always be made again. In this innovative book, Hennion turns the elusiveness of music into a resource for a pragmatic analysis: by which collective process do we make music appear among us? Rather than offering a sociology of music, The Passion for Music listens to the lesson provided by the case of music - this art of infinite mediations. Learning from music allows us to transform the paradigm to be offered by sociology, by confronting it (from Durkheim and Weber to Bourdieu) with a different way of considering objects. For this task, Hennion draws on aesthetics (Adorno) and art history (Haskell, Baxandall), as well as science and technology studies and popular music studies (Latour, Frith, DeNora). As part of that project, The Passion for Music presents a wide-ranging series of case studies, restoring attention to the rich and varied intermediaries through which music is brought to life: from the debate around the reinterpretation of baroque music, to the classroom, the rock scene, the classical music concert, Bach's 'social career in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the practices of musicamateurs today. This is the first English translation of one of the most important works of French scholarship on music and society.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
9781351541657
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Preface to the English Edition
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Lasting Things: Durkheim as a Founding Father of the Sociology of Culture
  10. Transition Restoring the Mediators: One Method for Two Programmes
  11. Transition Linear Causes or Circular Causalities?
  12. Transition ‘Unhappy Music’ Which ‘Fade[s] Away as Soon as It Is Born’
: Painting-and-Objects versus Music-and-Society?
  13. Transition Music as a Theory of Mediation
  14. Intermezzo A Sociologist at the ZĂ©nith Concert Hall 

  15. Conclusion: The Representation of Music: In Praise of Musical Artifice
  16. Epilogue ‘Vor deinen Thron’ 

  17. Bibliography
  18. Index