Music as social text

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Choice Reviews Online · 1992 · 142 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Part 1 Music as Social Knowledge: music premises the inadequacy of psychological theories the post-renaissance, industrial world the blocks against a social theory. Part 2 Music as social text: meaning in music functional tonality - a basis for musical hegemony the analysis of popular music - class, generation and ethnicity music and male hegemony music, text and subjectivity. Part 3 musical sociality and musicology: musicology and popular music studies towards a musicology of society.