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1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : music |
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The Program; Tuning Up; Program Notes; Theme; 1. Strange Music: Notes toward a Dialogic Sociology; Development; 2. Sociologizing the Strange: A Strong Program for a Weak Sociology; 3. Stranger Danger: Response to Michael Bell's "Strange Music"; 4. A Sisyphean Process? Dialogue on Dialogical Sociology; 5. Growing a Chorus; 6. Why I Like Contemporary Classical Musica nd Contemporary Sociological Theory: Three Ironies of Michael Bell's "Strange Music"; 7. Response to Michael Bell: Reflections Based on Perspectives from Popular Culture, Fine Arts, and Globalization; 8. A Three-Part Recension |
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9. Strange to the Structure: A Dialogue on "Strange Music," Performance Studies, Jazz Trumpet, and Billie Holiday10. Re-creating Music in the Moment: Reflections on Michael Bell's "Strange Music" and on Musical Performance; Coda; 11. If You Have All the Answers, You Don't Have All the Questions; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
The Strange Music of Social Life presents a dialogue on dialogic sociology, explored through the medium of music. Sociologist and composer Michael Mayerfeld Bell presents an argument that both sociology and classical music remain largely in the grip of a nineteenth-century totalizing ambition of prediction and control. He provides the refreshing approach of ""strangency"" to explain a sociology that tries to understand not only the regularities of social life but also the social conditions in which people do what we do not expect. Nine important sociologists and musicians |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Social sciences.
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Music.
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Human information processing.
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Social Sciences
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Music
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Mental Processes
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social sciences.
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music (discipline)
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MUSIC -- General.
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Human information processing
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Music
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Social sciences
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bell, Michael, 1957-
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Goetting, Ann
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| ISBN |
9781439907252 |
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1439907250 |
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9786613244673 |
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6613244678 |
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