Title: Music as social text /
Authors: Shepherd, John,
Date: 1991
Publisher: Polity Press,
Physical description: viii, 245 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: Part I. Music as social knowledge. Basic premises ; The inadequacy of psychologistic theories ; The Post-Renaissance, industrial world ; The blocks against a social theory -- part II. Music as social text. Meaning in music ; Functional tonality: a basis for musical hegemony ; The analysis of popular music: class, generation and ethnicity ; Music and male hegemony ; Music, text and subjectivity (with Jennifer Giles-Davis) -- part III. Musical sociality and musicology. Musicology and popular music studies ; Towards a musicology of society.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Music--Political aspects.; Music--Psychological aspects; Music--Social aspects.