The Cultural Study of Music : a critical introduction

The Cultural Study of Music is an anthology of new writings that will serve as a basic textbook on music and culture. Increasingly, music is being studied as it relates to specific cultures-not only by ethnomusicologists, but by traditional musicologists as well. Drawing on writers from music, anthropology, sociology, and the related fields, the book both defines the field-i.e., "What is the relation between music and culture?"-and then presents case studies of particular issues in world musics. This book would serve as an introductory textbook for the cultural study of music, an area that is increasingly being taught at the upper-level undergraduate and graduate level. Plus it would appeal to scholars in all areas of music, reflecting the latest and most up to date thinking on the complex issues surrounding how music and culture interrelate.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction
Music Studies and the idea of culture, Richard Middleton

I. Music and culture
1. Music and biocultural evolution, Ian Cross
2. Musicology, antropology, history, Gary Tomlinson
3. Music and Culture: Historiographies of disjuncture, Philip V. Bohlman
4. Comparing Music, comparing musicology, Martin Clayton
5. Music and social categories, John Shepherd
6. Music and meditation: Toward a new sociology of music, Antoine Hennion
7. Music and everyday life, Simon Frith
8. Music, Culture, and Creativity, Jason Tonybee
9. Music and psycology, Eric F. Clarke
10. Subjectivity Rampant! Music, Hermeneutics, and history, Lawrence Kramer
11. Historical musicology: Is it still possible?, Rob C. Wegman
12. Social History and Music History, Trevor Herbert

II. Issues and Debates
13. Musical autonomy revisited, David Clarke
14. Textual analysis or thick description?, Jeff Todd Titon
15. Music, experience, and the anthropology of emotion. Ruth Finnegan
16. Musical materials, perception, and listening, Nicola Dibben
17. Music as performance, Nicholas Cook
18. Of mice and dogs: music, gender, and sexuality at the long fin de siècle, Ian Biddle
19. Contesting Difference: A critique of Africanist Ethnomusicology, Kofi Agawu
20. What a difference a name makes: two instances of African-American popular music, David Brackett
21. Locating the people: Music and the popular, Richard Middlenton
22.Music education, cultural capital, and social group identity, Lucy Green
23. The cultural study of musical instruments, Kevin Dawe
24. The Destiny of "Diaspora" in Ethnomusicology, Mark Slobin
25. Globalization and the politics of World Music, Martin Stokes
26. Music and the market: the economics of music in the modern world, Dave Laing

References
Notes on contributors
Index