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Whose music? : a sociology of musical languages / by John Shepherd, Phil Virden, Graham Vulliamy, Trevor Wishart ; [foreword by Howard S. Becker].

Title
Whose music? : a sociology of musical languages / by John Shepherd, Phil Virden, Graham Vulliamy, Trevor Wishart ; [foreword by Howard S. Becker].
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction, [2008] c1977.

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Additional Authors
  • Shepherd, John, 1947-
  • Virden, Phil.
  • Vulliamy, Graham.
  • Wishart, Trevor.
Description
xiv, 300 p. : ill., music; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
  • Music > Social aspects
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 259-266.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Media, social process and music ; The 'meaning' of music ; The musical coding of ideologies / John Shepherd -- Musical writing, musical speaking / Trevor Wishart -- Some observations on the social stratification of twentieth-century music / Phil Virden & Trevor Wishart -- Music and the mass culture debate ; Music as a case study in the 'new sociology of education' / Graham Vulliamy -- On radical culture / Trevor Wishart -- Epilogue / the authors -- Appendix. Explanation of musical terminology / John Shepherd & Trevor Wishart.
ISBN
  • 0878553843
  • 0878558152 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^79055901^/MN
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library