Christian Kaden, Karsten Mackensen (eds.): Soziale Horizonte von Musik. Ein kommentiertes Lesebuch zur Musiksoziologie (2006) [German, English]

In Zeiten der Globalisierung und postmoderner Ausdifferenzierung von Gesellschaft und Kultur ist Musikwissenschaft auf ein zeitgemäßes Methodenrepertoire angewiesen. Dieses Lesebuch zu Musik als einem sozialen Tatbestand bietet eine aktuelle Einführung in die Musiksoziologie – verstanden nicht eng, disziplinär, abgrenzend, sondern als zeitgemäße Methode und attraktive Denk- und Wahrnehmungsweise für jeden Studierenden und Lehrenden der Musik oder Musikwissenschaft. Der Band versammelt Beiträge zur Popmusik, zur Musik außereuropäischer Kulturen und zur europäischen Kunstmusik verschiedener Epochen, die von der Institutionsgeschichte bis zur Gender-Forschung reichen. Die Texte stammen von den führenden Autoren aus den letzten 25 Jahren. Vier Originalbeiträge wurden für dieses Studienbuch neu geschrieben. In Kommentaren zu den Aufsätzen, die wichtige Aspekte hervorheben und theoretische Hintergründe wie komplexe Begriffe erläutern, wird die wissenschaftliche “Landschaft” sichtbar, in der über soziale Aspekte von Musik nachgedacht wird. Die Wurzeln bei den “Klassikern” der Musiksoziologie wie Max Weber oder Theodor W. Adorno werden dabei aufgedeckt.

Publisher New York, 2006
ISBN 3761815980, 9783761815984
Length 353 pages

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Ellen Propper Mickiewicz: Television, Power, and the Public in Russia (2008)

The Russian media are widely seen to be increasingly controlled by the government. Leaders buy up dissenting television channels and pour money in as fast as it haemorrhages out. As a result, TV news has become narrower in scope and in the range of viewpoints which it reflects: leaders demand assimilation and shut down dissenting stations. Using original and extensive focus group research and new developments in cognitive theory, Ellen Mickiewicz unveils a profound mismatch between the complacent assumption of Russian leaders that the country will absorb their messages, and the viewers on the other side of the screen. This is the first book to reveal what the Russian audience really thinks of its news and the mental strategies they use to process it. The focus on ordinary people, rather than elites, makes a strong contribution to the study of post-communist societies and the individual’s relationship to the media.

• Uses new methods to ascertain the role of television in the lives of the Russian public • Analyses viewers’ reactions to officially controlled television programs, and argues that they are not duped by it • Discusses the loss of diversity following the Kremlin’s decision to close down commercial channels and the resulting effects on the development of democracy in Russia

Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2008
ISBN 0521888565, 9780521888561
Length 212 pages

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Patricia Ticineto Clough: Autoaffection. Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology (2000)

Explores the connection between new theories, new technologies, and new ways of thinking.

In this book, Patricia Ticineto Clough reenergizes critical theory by viewing poststructuralist thought through the lens of “teletechnology,” using television as a recurring case study to illuminate the changing relationships between subjectivity, technology, and mass media.

Autoaffection links diverse forms of cultural criticism—feminist theory, queer theory, film theory, postcolonial theory, Marxist cultural studies and literary criticism, the cultural studies of science and the criticism of ethnographic writing—to the transformation and expansion of teletechnology in the late twentieth century. These theoretical approaches, Clough suggests, have become the vehicles of unconscious thought in our time.

In individual chapters, Clough juxtaposes the likes of Derridean deconstruction, Deleuzian philosophy, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. She works through the writings of Fredric Jameson, Donna Haraway, Judith Butler, Bruno Latour, Nancy Fraser, Elizabeth Grosz-to name only a few-placing all in dialogue with a teletechnological framework. Clough shows how these cultural criticisms have raised questions about the foundation of thought, allowing us to reenvision the relationship of nature and technology, the human and the machine, the virtual and the real, the living and the inert.

Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 2000
ISBN 0816628890, 9780816628896
213 pages

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