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Music and Its Social Meanings

Christopher Ballantine
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      Deciphering the specific social characteristics of music has lagged behind the analytical dissection of musical composition and biographical musicology. These essays address the issue. The sociology of music as examined here is an investigation into the ways in which social formations come together in musical structures. The essays specifically address the problem of our neutralized musical consciousness, the separation of music from its social context and the artificial insulation of musical understanding from social significance. A particular theme in this work concerns the struggle against ideological distortions arising from the insulation of music from its sociological context. The author argues that there is a stronger connection between music and society than is generally assumed.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Christopher Ballantine EAN: 9780677220000 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 410 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 1984-01-01 CITY: GENRE: MUSIC / General WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      The arts: general topics, Music

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      CHRISTOPHER BALLANTINE holds degrees from the Universities of the Witwatersrand, Cambridge and Cape Town, and has carried out research in various musical fields including twentieth-century music, African music, and Marxist sociology and aesthetics of music. He has been Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and visiting Professor at Middlebury College, Vermont. Dr Ballantine is currently Professor of Music at the University of Natal.
      Deciphering the specific social characteristics of music has lagged behind the analytical dissection of musical composition and biographical musicology. These essays address the issue. The sociology of music as examined here is an investigation into the ways in which social formations come together in musical structures. The essays specifically address the problem of our neutralized musical consciousness, the separation of music from its social context and the artificial insulation of musical understanding from social significance. A particular theme in this work concerns the struggle against ideological distortions arising from the insulation of music from its sociological context. The author argues that there is a stronger connection between music and society than is generally assumed.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Christopher Ballantine EAN: 9780677220000 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 410 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 1984-01-01 CITY: GENRE: MUSIC / General WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      The arts: general topics, Music

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      CHRISTOPHER BALLANTINE holds degrees from the Universities of the Witwatersrand, Cambridge and Cape Town, and has carried out research in various musical fields including twentieth-century music, African music, and Marxist sociology and aesthetics of music. He has been Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and visiting Professor at Middlebury College, Vermont. Dr Ballantine is currently Professor of Music at the University of Natal.

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