Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 introduction and Ron Eyerman's afterword place the chapters in context and reflect on their collective contribution to meaning-centered sociology.
Table of Contents1 Introduction
Part I Setting New Agendas in the Cultural Sociologyof the Arts
2 The Three Generations of the French Sociology of Art
3 Artist Residencies as Creative Ecologies: Proposing a New Framework for Twenty-First-Century
Cultural Production
4 Theory of an Art Market Scandal: Artistic Integrity and Financial Speculation in the Inigo Philbrick Case
Part II What Art and Music Mean: Aesthetics and Evaluation
5 Constructing Difference and Diversity: Culture, Meaning, and the Social Aesthetics of American Art Music
6 Locating Meaning in Contemporary Art: How Artists Conceptualize the Aesthetic Experience
7 Moving Through Aesthetic Space: Visual Artists and Migration
8 Mapping Multivocality: How Critics Communicate Complex Meanings Through Metaphor
Part III Where Art and Music Happen: Materiality and Performance
9 Looking Beyond Interaction: Exploring Meaning-Making Through the Windows of an Art Gallery
10 Framing Performance and Fusion: How Music Venues’ Materiality and Intermediaries Shape Music Scenes
11 Saron Cons āto, Artistic Identity, and European Classical Music in Japan
Part IV Raising the Stakes Through the Arts: Contestation and Controversy
12 Owning the Hate: A Case Study of Moral Entrepreneurship in Contemporary Rock Music and the Trademarking of Racial Slurs
13 The Music of the Dying Class: Jazz as the Impure Sacred in Stalinist Czechoslovakia
14 Drawing the Line: Evaluation, Boundary Work, and Boundary Objects in a New Discipline
15 Music and Democracy in America: Historical Perspectives on ‘Democratization’ in the Digital Age
