The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music

This edited collection develops the Strong Program's contribution to the sociological study of the arts and places it in conversation with other cultural perspectives in the field. Presenting some of the newest and most original research by both renowned figures and early career scholars, the volume marks a new stage in the development of the cultural sociology of art and music.

The chapters in Part 1 set new agendas by reflecting on the field's history, presenting theoretical innovations, and suggesting future directions for research. Part 2 explores aesthetic issues and challenges in the creation, experience, and interpretation of art and music. Part 3 focuses on the material environments and social settings where people engage with art and music. In Part 4, the contributors examine controversies about music and contestation over artistic matters, whether in the public sphere, in the American judicial system, or in an emerging academic discipline. The editor's introductionand Ron Eyerman's afterword place the chapters in context and reflect on their collective contribution to meaning-centered sociology.

Sets new research agendas in the cultural sociology of the arts, with a specific focus on music and visual art Presents new theoretical developments and critical discussions of established approaches in the sociology of the arts Features rigorous empirical research in a wide range of national contexts using established and innovative methods

Autorentext

Lisa McCormick is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She was co-editor of the journal Cultural Sociology from 2016 to 2020.

Klappentext

This edited collection develops the Strong Program s contribution to the sociological study of the arts and places it in conversation with other cultural perspectives in the field. Presenting some of the newest and most original research by both renowned figures and early career scholars, the volume marks a new stage in the development of the cultural sociology of art and music. The chapters in Part 1 set new agendas by reflecting on the field s history, presenting theoretical innovations, and suggesting future directions for research. Part 2 explores aesthetic issues and challenges in the creation, experience, and interpretation of art and music. Part 3 focuses on the material environments and social settings where people engage with art and music. In Part 4, the contributors examine controversies about music and contestation over artistic matters, whether in the public sphere, in the American judicial system, or in an emerging academic discipline. The editor s introductionand Ron Eyerman's afterword place the chapters in context and reflect on their collective contribution to meaning-centered sociology.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 - Introduction.- Part 1: Setting new agendas in the cultural sociology of the arts.- Chapter 2 - The Three Generations of the French Sociology of Art.- Chapter 3 - Artistic Residencies as Creative Ecologies: Proposing a New Framework for 21st-Century Cultural Production.- Chapter 4 - Theory of an Art Market Scandal: Artistic Integrity and Financial Speculation in the Inigo Philbrick Case.- Part 2: What art and music mean: Aesthetics and evaluation.- Chapter 5 - Constructing Difference and Diversity: Culture, Meaning, and the Social Aesthetics of American Art Music.- Chapter 6 Locating Meaning in Contemporary Art: How Artists Conceptualize the Aesthetic Experience.- Chapter 7 Moving through Aesthetic Space: Visual Artists and Migration.- Chapter 8 Mapping Multivocality: How Critics Communicate Complex Meanings through Metaphor.- Part 3: Where art and music happen: Materiality and performance.- Chapter 9 - Looking Beyond Interaction: Exploring Meaning Making through the Windows of an Art Gallery.- Chapter 10 - Framing Performance and Fusion: How Music Venues' Materiality and Intermediaries Shape Music Scenes.- Chapter 11 - Saron Consto, Artistic Identity and European Classical Music in Japan.- Part 4: Raising the stakes through the arts: Contestation and controversy.- Chapter 12 - Owning the Hate: A Case Study of Moral Entrepreneurship in Contemporary Rock Music and the Trademarking of Racial Slurs.- Chapter 13- The Music of the Dying Class: Jazz as the Impure Sacred in Stalinist Czechoslovakia.- Chapter 14 - Drawing the Line: Evaluation, Boundary work, and Boundary Objects in a New Discipline.- Chapter 15 - Music and Democracy in America: Historical Perspectives on 'Democratization' in the Digital Age.