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The Passion for Music: A Sociology of Mediation (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Passion for Music: A Sociology of Mediation (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives
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Music is an accumulation of mediators: instruments, languages,
sheets, performers, scenes, media and so on. There is no musical
object 'in 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 music 'amateurs' 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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