{"product_id":"why-music-matters-hardback-9781405192422","title":"Why Music Matters (Hardback) 9781405192422","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhy Music Matters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Many of us who love popular music call ourselves 'poptimist' these days without bothering to establish a theoretical framework that would make that catchy term meaningful. In this slim, lucid, infinitely deep book, David Hesmondhalgh offers a way into that process. His conclusions about music's impact on our personal and social lives have already become essential to my own work, and any music scholar, critic, musician or fan will benefit from his calm, clear, uncompromising voice.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAnn Powers, Pop Music Critic, National Public Radio\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A terrific book: passionate, cogent, and best of all a strong defence of central role of aesthetic experience in fostering human flourishing and mutuality. A timely shot across the bows of new utilitarians in government and a much needed reminder to many in contemporary cultural and communication studies that analysis needs to have an ethical grounding.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eGraham Murdock, Loughborough University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is also about why freedom, solidarity and love matter. Hesmondhalgh's wide-ranging and thought-provoking study sets the agenda for musicology's latest affective turn.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMartin Stokes, King's College London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Hesmondhalgh (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405192422, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 August 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 1.5 cm, 0.408 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Most notably the book is ambivalent about much of the promises claimed by the advocates of music's transformative potential, but is never bleak, retaining a refreshing realism about the capacity of music to matter to people, publics and nations across the world.\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Books In Critical Theory,\u003c\/i\u003e 19 June 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eListen to David Hesmondhalgh discuss the arguments at the core of 'Why Music Matters' with Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4's \u003ci\u003eThinking Allowed\u003c\/i\u003e here:\u003c\/b\u003e www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b03q9q2n\/Thinking_Allowed_Why_Music_Matters_Bhangra_and_Belonging\/\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn what ways might music enrich the lives of people and of societies? What prevents it from doing so? \u003ci\u003eWhy Music Matters\u003c\/i\u003e explores the role of music in our lives, and investigates the social and political significance of music in modern societies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFirst book of its kind to explore music through a variety of theories and approaches and unite these theories using one authoritative voice\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCombines a broad yet theoretically sophisticated approach to music and society with real clarity and accessibility\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA historically and sociologically informed understanding of music in relation to questions of social power and inequality\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBy drawing on both popular and academic talk about a range of musical forms and practices, readers will engage with a wide musical terrain and a wealth of case studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Music as Intimate and Social, Private and Public 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Feeling and Flourishing 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Music, Affect, Emotion 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Emotions, Narrative Play, and Music 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Human Flourishing, Aesthetic Experience, and Music 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Musical Flourishing Beyond Contemplative Cultivation 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Musical Aesthetics and Bodily Experience: Dancing 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Approaches to Music and Emotion in Everyday Life: Contributions and Limitations 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.7 Problems of Self-realization in Modern Life and Their Relation to Music 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.8 Competitive Individualism and Status Competition Through Music 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.9 Review: Music’s Constrained Enrichment of Lives 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Love and Sex 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Sex and Love and Rock and Roll 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Two Approaches to Music, Sex, and Sexuality 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 The Pop-Rock Divide and Rock’s Sexual Politics 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Post-War Pop’s Emotional Resources 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Sex and Love on the Dance Floor 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Critiques of Countercultural Sexual Freedom 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7 Sex and Love in Punk, Alternative Rock, and Metal 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8 Sexuality in Twenty-First-Century Pop 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.9 Black Music and Racialized Sexuality 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Sociability and Place 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Ways of Being Together: Forms of Publicness 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Celebrations of Musical Participation and Their Limitations 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 That Syncing Feeling 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Ordinary Sociability I: Singing Together 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 Ordinary Sociability II: Dancing Together 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 Playing Together: Amateur Musicians 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.7 Theorizing Positive Musical Sociality 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.8 Spectres of Capitalist Modernity Revisited: Class and Inequality 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.9 Uneven Musical Development 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.10 Elements of Thriving Musical Places 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.11 Quality of Working Life of Professional Musicians 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Commonality and Cosmopolitanism 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Mediated Commonality in Modern Societies 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Aesthetic Experience and Aspirations to Commonality 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Redeeming Aesthetic Experience? 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Talk About Music, What It Tells Us, and What It Doesn’t 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Music, Politics, and Publicness 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 Communities of Shared Taste? Subcultures, Scenes, and Fans 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7 Nations, Ethnicity, Cosmopolitanism 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.8 Rock as Cosmopolitanism? 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.9 Complexities of Music and Nation 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.10 Strange Journeys: Working-Class and Ethnic Musics Become National Musics 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.11 Sentimental Citizenship 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.12 Music, the Nation, and the Popular 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.13 Music of the African Diaspora: Life-Affirming Collectivity in Decline? 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.14 A Critical Defense of Music 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 187\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52437796618520,"sku":"9781405192422","price":64.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781405192422.jpg?v=1784941162","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/why-music-matters-hardback-9781405192422","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}