Overview
- Covers music as a whole, from art to popular music, deploying an organic, non-elite approach to musical phenomena
- Refers to repertoires and contexts that are not often analysed within musicology
- Investigates musical phenomena in their interaction with current issues and societies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress (NAHP, volume 2)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Musical Creation and Perception as a Socio-cultural Phenomena
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Establishing the Musical Identities. Cultural, Political and Social Perspectives
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Analytical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Musical Text
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About this book
This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well frequented in musicology. As readers will see, music has many roles to play in society. Music can be a generator of social phenomena, or a result of them; it can enhance or activate social actions, or simply co-habit with them. Above all, music has a stable position within society, in that it actively participates in it. Music can either describe or prescribe social aspects; musicians may have a certain position/role in society (e.g., the “popstar” as fashion leader, spokesman for political issues, etc.). Depending on the type of society, music may have a certain “meaning” or “function” (music does not mean the same thing everywhere in the world). Lastly, music can define a society, and it is not uncommon for it to best define a particular historical moment.
Case-studies in this work provide visibility for musical cultures that are rarely exposed in the dominant musicological discourse. Several contributions combine musicological analysis with "insider-musician" points of view. Some essays in the collection address the cultural clash between certain types of music/musicians and the respective institutional counterparts, while certain contributing authors draw on experimental research findings.
Throughout this book we see how musics are socially significant, and - at the same time - that societies are musically significant too. Thus the book will appeal to musicologists, cultural scholars and semioticians, amongst others.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sounds, Societies, Significations
Book Subtitle: Numanistic Approaches to Music
Editors: Rima Povilionienė
Series Title: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47060-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47059-7Published: 17 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83652-2Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47060-3Published: 10 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2510-442X
Series E-ISSN: 2510-4438
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 240
Number of Illustrations: 105 b/w illustrations
Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Music, Cultural Heritage, Semiotics