Music, Culture, and Society A Reader [Paperback]

This reader collects some of the most important essays on the relationship between culture and music. The topic has received enormous attention over the last few decades, transforming musicology throughout much of the Western world. The essays examine the connections between music and such diverse areas as language, the body, class, production, and consumption. Among the contributors are Jacques Attali, John Blacking, Michel Foucault, Lydia Goehr, Lawrence Kramer, Portia Maultsby, Rose Rosengard-Subotnik, Theodor Adorno, and Ero Tarasti. The collection provides an ideal introduction for students of music, sociology and cultural studies and for anyone interested in contemporary musicology.

Introduction: Music, Culture, and Society: Changes in Perspective,Derek B. Scott
Part I. MUSIC AND LANGUAGE
Introduction
An Overview,Harold S. Powers
On Musical Inspiration,Deryck Cooke
On Musical Semantics,Leonard Bernstein
On Musical Structuralism,Patricia Tunstall
On Music and Myth,Eero Tarasti
On the Semiotics of Music,Gino Stefani
References
Part II. MUSIC AND THE BODY: Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
Introduction
On the Expression of Sexuality,Simon Frith and Angela McRobbie
On the Representation of Sexuality,Jenny Taylor and Dave Laing
On Music and Masculinity,Charles Ford
On the Sapphonic voice,Elizabeth Wood
On Black Music and Authenticity,David Hatch and Stephan Millward
On Africanisms,Portia Maultsby
On Musical Behaviour,John Blacking
On Music and Dance,Richard Leppert
On Music and Orientalism,Ralph P. Locke
References
Part III. MUSIC AND CLASS
Introduction
On Classes and Strata,Theodor W. Adorno
On Industrial Folksong,Dave Harker
On Music and Hegemony,Derek B. Scott