Exploring the Networked Worlds of Popular Music : Milieux Cultures

ISBN-13: 9780415956581 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 277 str.

Peter Webb

Opis

This book assesses previous sociological and cultural studies attempts to analyse and theorise worlds of cultural production and in particular worlds of popular music production. It offers and develops a new theoretical matrix that can illuminate these trends in a more complex and instructive way. The concept of milieu cultures combines theoretical strands drawn from phenomenology, Bourdieu's reflexive sociology and globalisation theory with new and original case study work on a variety of cities and musical worlds (Bristol, London, New York, San Francisco, Berlin; Trip-hop, Hip-hop, Industrial, Neo-folk) to provide a multi-layered theory that operates by acknowledging a number of different experiential registers.

Spis treści

Introduction  Section 1: Theories of Culture and Music  1. A Journey through Theories of the Intersection of Music and Culture  2. Milieu Cultures: The Theoretical Development of the Milieu: From Subcultures, Scenes and Neo-Tribes to Milieu  Section 2: Journeys through Networked Worlds of Popular Music: Milieu Cultures  3. Interrogating the Production of Sound and Place: Bristol as a Site of Music Production, from Lunatic Fringe to Worldwide Massive  4. Neo-Folk or Post Industrial Music: The Development of an Esoteric Music Milieu  5. Hip-Hop as a Global Cultural Phenomenon: The Export and Appropriation of Contradiction, Complexity and Dialogue  6. The Great in the Small: The Changing Terrain of Independence  7. Musicians: (In) Security in the Trial and Error of the Recording Industry.  Conclusion: Milieu Cultures

O autorze

Peter Webb is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.