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Audiences and everyday aesthetics: talking about good and bad music
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Abstract The first part of this article outlines a dilemma in cultural studies and sociology of culture regarding the politics of aesthetics. This concerns whether discourse about the evaluation of symbolic forms serves to reinforce power relations and maintain divisions between people and communities, or wh... mehr
The first part of this article outlines a dilemma in cultural studies and sociology of culture regarding the politics of aesthetics. This concerns whether discourse about the evaluation of symbolic forms serves to reinforce power relations and maintain divisions between people and communities, or whether evaluation can serve as a basis for greater commonality. One way of at least beginning to address this issue is to attend to the 'everyday aesthetics' of media audiences, exemplified here in the ordinary evaluative discourse of music users. The second part of the article reports on interview research about musical tastes and values. It analyses these interviews for evidence of the ways in which evaluative statements might involve making connections with others, or alternatively how they may act as barriers to social connectivity or community. How and to what extent might ordinary musical evaluation be thought of as part of potential aesthetic public spheres?... weniger
Klassifikation
Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie
andere Medien
Freie Schlagwörter
audiences; commonality; emotion; everyday aesthetics; music; public sphere; sociological aesthetics; taste;
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2007
Seitenangabe
S. 507-527
Zeitschriftentitel
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 10 (2007) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549407081959
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)