Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-329) and index.
Contents:
Lasting things : Durkheim as a founding father of the sociology of culture -- Before mediation : social readings of arts -- Sociology and the art object : belief, illusion, artefacts -- The social history of art : reinserting the works into society -- The new history of art : the social in the art work -- The baroque case : musical upheavals -- "What can you hear?" : an ethnographic study of a music lesson -- "Bach today" -- Intermezzo. A sociologist at the Zenith concert hall -- Music lovers : taste as an activity -- Conclusion. The representation of music : in praise of musical artifice -- Epilogue. "Vor deinen Thron".
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