Description
Book SynopsisThis book introduces the topics of Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and social demography in Western art musics and demonstrates their historical and sociological importance. The essays in this book explore the concepts of “existential irony” and “sanctification,” which have been mentioned or discussed by music scholars, historians, and musicologists only either in connection with specific composers’ works (Shostakovich’s, in the case of “existential irony”) or very parenthetically, merely in passing in the biographies of composers of “classical” musics. This groundbreaking work illustrates their generality and sociological sources and correlates in contemporary Western art musics.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. On Horizons and Research Agendas for the Sociology of Musics: Changes under the Pandemic and Social Distancing
2. On “Ethno-Existential Irony” in Western Art Musics
3. Counter-Enlightenment, the Other, and Existential Irony
4. On Migration and the Social Demography of Western Art Musics
5. On the Sociology of Musics and Counter-Enlightenment in Israel
6. On Modern Jewish Atlantic Rim and Black Atlantic Migrations
7. On the Sanctification of Western Art Musics
8. Sociological Perspectives on the Sanctification of Secular Musics
References
Index
