The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music: New Directions and New Discoveries

by Lisa McCormick (Editor)

Overview

This edited collection develops the Strong Program’s contribution to the sociological study of the arts and places it in conversation with other cultural perspectives in the field. Presenting some of the newest and most original research by both renowned figures and early career scholars, the volume marks a new stage in the development of the cultural sociology of art and music.

The chapters in Part 1 set new agendas by reflecting on the field’s history, presenting theoretical innovations, and suggesting future directions for research. Part 2 explores aesthetic issues and challenges in the creation, experience, and interpretation of art and music. Part 3 focuses on the material environments and social settings where people engage with art and music. In Part 4, the contributors examine controversies about music and contestation over artistic matters, whether in the public sphere, in the American judicial system, or in an emerging academic discipline. The editor’s introductionand Ron Eyerman's afterword place the chapters in context and reflect on their collective contribution to meaning-centered sociology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031114229
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	12/19/2022
Series:	Cultural Sociology
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	445
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lisa McCormick is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She was co-editor of the journal Cultural Sociology from 2016 to 2020.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction.- Part 1: Setting new agendas in the cultural sociology of the arts.- Chapter 2 - The Three Generations of the French Sociology of Art.- Chapter 3 - Artistic Residencies as Creative Ecologies: Proposing a New Framework for 21st-Century Cultural Production.- Chapter 4 - Theory of an Art Market Scandal: Artistic Integrity and Financial Speculation in the Inigo Philbrick Case.- Part 2: What art and music mean: Aesthetics and evaluation.- Chapter 5 - Constructing Difference and Diversity: Culture, Meaning, and the Social Aesthetics of American Art Music.- Chapter 6 Locating Meaning in Contemporary Art: How Artists Conceptualize the Aesthetic Experience.- Chapter 7 Moving through Aesthetic Space: Visual Artists and Migration.- Chapter 8 Mapping Multivocality: How Critics Communicate Complex Meanings through Metaphor.- Part 3: Where art and music happen: Materiality and performance.- Chapter 9 - Looking Beyond Interaction: Exploring Meaning Making through the Windows of an Art Gallery.- Chapter 10 - Framing Performance and Fusion: How Music Venues’ Materiality and Intermediaries Shape Music Scenes.- Chapter 11 - Saron Consāto, Artistic Identity and European Classical Music in Japan.- Part 4: Raising the stakes through the arts: Contestation and controversy.- Chapter 12 - Owning the Hate: A Case Study of Moral Entrepreneurship in Contemporary Rock Music and the Trademarking of Racial Slurs.- Chapter 13- The Music of the Dying Class: Jazz as the Impure Sacred in Stalinist Czechoslovakia.- Chapter 14 - Drawing the Line: Evaluation, Boundary work, and Boundary Objects in a New Discipline.- Chapter 15 - Music and Democracy in America: Historical Perspectives on ‘Democratization’ in the Digital Age.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This book elegantly demonstrates how fecund cultural sociology might be when its different traditions and factions are brought into real dialogue with each other. Through a series of engaging case studies and thoughtful theoretical discussions, it points the way to a renewal of the sociology of art and music.” (David Hesmondhalgh, author of “Why Music Matters”)

“Lisa McCormick’s collection shows things have come a long way since debates in the sociology of the arts were mired in oppositions between aesthetic and social approaches. The contributions demonstrate it is possible to metaphorically chew gum and walk (if not run or perform cartwheels) at the same time. The authors draw on perspectives from French pragmatism, social aesthetics, textural sociology, symbolic boundaries, creative ecologies, the Strong Program; and cover topics such as the impact of financial speculation, migration, race and inclusion/exclusion, the performance of “authenticity”, and judgment in the arts. A timely set of contributions to an important but sometimes overlooked field of sociology.” (Eduardo de la Fuente, University of South Australia)

“In The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music, Lisa McCormick presents an important collection of research that illuminates promising directions in the sociology of the arts. Can sociologists legitimately study meaning in art? Is arts sociology more than production systems and cultural capital? Do sociologists ever put art at the heart of sociology of the arts? This book, which I read with great interest, answers yes. More importantly, it shows us how it’s done.” (Victoria D. Alexander, Goldsmiths, University of London)