The Accessibility of Music : Participation, Reception, and Contact
Jochen. Eisentraut
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | New York : Cambridge University Press , 2013
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (342 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The choice of case studies; Part I An outline topography of musical accessibility; 1 What is musical accessibility?; ; Three Levels of accessibility; Some examples; Musical accessibility and disability; Interrelatedness of Levels and 'Gebrauchsmusik'; Use of music and Weber's types of social action; Level I: physical access; Object status: from cult value to hyperreality; Level I accessibility, music and media; Astronaut, city dweller or hunter-gatherer? Theorising the Web; Level I: accessibility and the market; Level II: reception. - 'Victorian sages' and E.M. Forster. - Early modernism, politics and ethicsAccessibility and early modernism; Accessibility and political discourse; Accessibility, aesthetics and moral judgements; Nature, nurture and psychology; The blank slate and the empty signifier; Musical universals?; Gestalt psychology; Memory; Evolutionary psychology; Deep structure; Lullabies; Summary and discussion; Part II Accessibility discourse in rock, and cultural change; 3 Case study 1: 'prog' rock/punk rock - sophistication, directness and shock; Reading the 'texts'; The problem of aesthetic value in popular music; Progressive rock; The tide turns. - Genre, predictability and challengeGlobalisation, familiarity and exoticism; Novelty and personality theory; Level II accessibility and social status; Level III: participation; Beyond the Konsumentengewohnheit; Accessibility as an established aim of British cultural policy; Level III accessibility, civil society, social capital and status; Summary; 2 Society, atonality, psychology; Culture and society; The concept of accessibility and (late) modernity; Subcultures and scenes; Class; Individualisation; Time and fashion; Accessibility of music from other places and times. - Lawful cyclicalityGradualism or revolution?; Time, change and accessibility; Change or progress?; Accessibility and Zeitgeist; Accessibility and generational shift; Overview and proposed concepts; Meta-narrative or local relevance; Accessibility and change; Summary; Part III A valiant failure? New art music and the people; 5 Case study 2: Vaughan Williams' National Music in context; ; Introduction; Locating National Music; Victorian and Edwardian movements and ideas; Music and the theory of evolution; The Folk Revival; The Arts and Crafts Movement; Christian Socialism and adult education. - Rock valuesBlues; Directness, sophistication and authenticity; The value of shock; Punk, shock and the avant-gardes; The accessibility of pain; What is accessible in 'prog' and punk??; Contextualism revisited; High-low; prog-punk?; Summary; Coda; 4 Zeitgeist: accessibility in flux; ; Revolutions in music and culture; Background: theories of social change; Cultural change I: social and economic perspectives; Collective behaviour theory; Subcultural theory; Dynamic post-subculturalism; Obsolescence, status - and boredom; Cultural change II: creation and selection of material; Memetics. - Jochen Eisentraut's book provides a range of perspectives on why, and how, we engage with music.
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| ISBN | 9781107024830
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