Music in everyday life / Tia DeNora.
"The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an influence on character, social structure and action. There have, however, been few attempts to spec...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Formulating questions - the "music and society" nexus
- 2. Musical affect in practice
- 3. Music as a technology of self
- 4. Music and the body
- 5. Music as a device of social ordering
- 6. Music's social powers.