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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. Social scientists have traditionally
focused on music experiences among different generations, one at a
time, with an emphasis on young audiences. This book explores
appreciation for and use of music as a dynamic process that does
not begin when we enter adolescence, nor end when we become adults.
It demonstrates the relationship between the experience of music
and the experience of self as a fundamental feature of the more
general relationship of the individual to society. Music completes
the circle of life. The author bases his analysis on observations
made through a variety of qualitative studies and methodologies, as
well as his own music autobiography. Clear and jargon free, this
book is a timely application of key concepts from the everyday life
sociologies for scholars and students in the sociology of music and
culture and other related disciplines such as anthropology and
ethnomusicology. It will be of interest for upper-division
undergraduate and graduate courses in culture, music, symbolic
interaction, social psychology, and qualitative research methods.
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. Social scientists have traditionally
focused on music experiences among different generations, one at a
time, with an emphasis on young audiences. This book explores
appreciation for and use of music as a dynamic process that does
not begin when we enter adolescence, nor end when we become adults.
It demonstrates the relationship between the experience of music
and the experience of self as a fundamental feature of the more
general relationship of the individual to society. Music completes
the circle of life. The author bases his analysis on observations
made through a variety of qualitative studies and methodologies, as
well as his own music autobiography. Clear and jargon free, this
book is a timely application of key concepts from the everyday life
sociologies for scholars and students in the sociology of music and
culture and other related disciplines such as anthropology and
ethnomusicology. It will be of interest for upper-division
undergraduate and graduate courses in culture, music, symbolic
interaction, social psychology, and qualitative research methods.
Participants from Couch-Stone Symposium 2014 have transformed their
presentations into elegant papers for this collection. Chapters
fall into three categorical themes, largely reflecting their
position in the symposium but, more importantly, reflecting a
natural progression in scope of symbolic interactionist work in
music: moving from observations of the individual to observation of
organizations to interdisciplinary observations of music from
scholars in related disciplines.
Written for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Popular Music
courses, this book uses popular music to illustrate fundamental
social institutions, theories, sociological concepts, and
processes. The authors use music, a social phenomenon of great
interest, to draw students in and bring life to their study of
social life.
Written for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Popular Music
courses, this book uses popular music to illustrate fundamental
social institutions, theories, sociological concepts, and
processes. The authors use music, a social phenomenon of great
interest, to draw students in and bring life to their study of
social life.
"The Existential Self in Society" explores the ways in which we
experience and shape our individuality in a rapidly changing social
world. Kotarba and Fontana have gathered eleven original essays
that form an exciting contribution and an ideal introduction to the
emerging field of existential sociology.
Rock 'n' roll infuses the everyday life of the American adult, but
for the first, complete generation of rock 'n' roll fans-baby
boomers born between 1946 and 1964-it holds a special kind of
value, playing a social personality-defining role that is unique to
this group. Based on 18 years of sociological research and 52 years
of rock 'n' roll fandom, Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans: The Music
Never Ends draws on data collected from participant observations
and interviews with artists, fans, and producers to explore our
aging rock culture through the filter of symbolic interactionist
theory. As author Joseph Kotarba notes, the "purpose in writing
this book is to describe sociologically the many ways people in our
society who were raised on rock'n'roll music and its cultural
baggage have continued to use the rock'n'roll idiom to make sense
of, celebrate, and master everyday life-through adulthood and for
the rest of their lives." Sociological concepts of the "self" are
the key organizing feature of this book, as each chapter engages
with sociological ideas to explain how baby boomers use popular
music to explore, sculpt, fulfill, and ultimately make sense of who
they are in different contexts. Kotarba looks at baby boomers as
individuals and parents, as political actors and religious
adherents, social beings and aging members of American society,
detailing throughout how rock 'n' roll provides a groundwork for
establishing and maintaining both private and public sense of self.
Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans will interest scholars and students
of music and sociology and American popular culture.
Rock 'n' roll infuses the everyday life of the American adult, but
for the first, complete generation of rock 'n' roll fans-baby
boomers born between 1946 and 1964-it holds a special kind of
value, playing a social personality-defining role that is unique to
this group. Based on 18 years of sociological research and 52 years
of rock 'n' roll fandom, Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans: The Music
Never Ends draws on data collected from participant observations
and interviews with artists, fans, and producers to explore our
aging rock culture through the filter of symbolic interactionist
theory. As author Joseph Kotarba notes, the "purpose in writing
this book is to describe sociologically the many ways people in our
society who were raised on rock'n'roll music and its cultural
baggage have continued to use the rock'n'roll idiom to make sense
of, celebrate, and master everyday life-through adulthood and for
the rest of their lives." Sociological concepts of the "self" are
the key organizing feature of this book, as each chapter engages
with sociological ideas to explain how baby boomers use popular
music to explore, sculpt, fulfill, and ultimately make sense of who
they are in different contexts. Kotarba looks at baby boomers as
individuals and parents, as political actors and religious
adherents, social beings and aging members of American society,
detailing throughout how rock 'n' roll provides a groundwork for
establishing and maintaining both private and public sense of self.
Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans will interest scholars and students
of music and sociology and American popular culture.
Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded research project on drug information and
online drug-related communities. The editors of this pivotal text,
Edward Murguia, Ann Lessem, and Melissa Tackett-Gibson, elevate the
debate about drug use and the Internet from a polemic discourse to
social scientific investigation. The essays confront issues related
to the study of drug communication online, including the causal
factors of abuse as discussed in online forums, the relationship
between music and drug use in virtual communities, and the ways in
which individuals assess the accuracy of online drug information.
This book highlights the variety of ways to examine drug use as a
social problem and presents several theoretical perspectives
valuable to online research. Real Drugs in a Virtual World is an
enlightening and thought provoking read that will appeal to
sociology students and those interested in virtual communities.
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