Music in the Course of Life

This book illustrates how social meanings provided by music are experienced throughout the course of life. To this end, the author examines in depth the concepts of self, identity, socialization, and the life course itself.

Autorentext

Joseph A. Kotarba is Professor of Sociology at Texas State University, U.S.A. where he directs the Music Across the Life Course Project. He also serves as Medical Sociologist and Ethnographer for the Institute for Translational Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch. He received the George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction; and the Society's Charles Horton Cooley Award for Best Book in the Symbolic Interactionist Tradition for Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013); and the Society's Helena Lopata Award for Excellence in Mentoring. He is currently studying the relationship between science, medicine, and music; the experience of music during the COVID-19 pandemic; and the culture of the translational science movement. He received his doctorate from the University of California, San Diego.

Inhalt

Introduction

1 Early Childhood: The Music-Self as Being

2 Later Childhood/Early Adolescence: Experimenting with the Music-Self

3 Later Adolescence and the Becoming of the Music-Self

4 Becoming of the Music-Self in Early Adulthood

5 Adulthood: "Still Becoming"

6 International Experiences of the Adult Music-Self

7 The Early Elders' Music-Self as "Been There"

8 Community as the Vortex for Music and the Self

9 Compassion for Later Elders and Music at the End of Life: The Music-Self Comes Full Circle

Conclusion