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Item Details
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MUSIC AS SOCIAL TEXT
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| By: |
John Shepherd |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£45.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0745608256 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780745608259 |
| Publisher: |
POLITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 January, 1991 |
| Pages: |
250 |
| Description: |
Intended for students of cultural studies, this work is an attempt to analyze music through sociological and musicological concerns, paying particular attention to the ways in which pop music expresses relations of class, gender and ethnic identity. |
| Synopsis: |
The study of music in its social context has expanded rapidly over the last 15 years, yet little of this work discusses the music itself: the processes, textures and structures of sound which so powerfully affects us as individuals. "Music as Social Text" begins by analyzing the forces which have made this kind of discussion difficult within the intellectual tradition of the western world. The book argues that a society in which reality is grasped in an overwhelmingly visual way has difficulty with expression that is non-designative in its use of sound. |
| Illustrations: |
13 figures, diagrams |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Polity Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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