Myth, Meaning, and Performance
Subtitle: Toward a New Cultural Sociology of the Arts (The Yale Cultural Sociology Series)
Contributors: Jeffrey Alexander (Editor)
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: June 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781594512148
Subjects: Cultural studies; The Arts: General Issues; Social Science; Sociology; Popular Culture - General; Sociology - General; Social Science / Media Studies; Arts and society
First sentence: Hearing a classical piano concerto streaming from a window while sitting out in the courtyard of a large apartment complex, I was moved to speculate about the class, age, ethnicity, and gender of the person listening to it.