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This open access edited collection shows how neoliberalism continues to shape higher music education institutions, curricula design and learning cultures, as well as the various ways of transitioning from education to work and the world of uncertainty and job insecurity currently being experienced by a younger generation of musicians.
Im Mittelpunkt des Sammelbandes steht die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Gewaltmotiv und seiner (multimodalen) Darstellung im (Deutsch-)Rap.
Dagmar Abfalter and Rosa Reitsamer (eds.): Music as Labour
This book brings together research at the intersection of music, cultural industries, management, antiracist politics and gender studies to analyse music as labour, in particular highlighting social inequalities and activism.
Music as Labour is available as an Open Access book under a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 licence.
Ina Kahle: Populärkultur und sozialökologische Transformation
Band 39 der Schriftenreihe Musik und Gesellschaft, seit 1967 herausgegeben vom Institut für Musiksoziologie in Wien
Musikfestivals gelten in der Regel nicht als Orte gelebter ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit. Ein anscheinend unbedachter Umgang mit benötigten Ressourcen sowie der oftmals unverhältnismäßige Konsum von Alkohol sprechen zunächst nicht dafür, dass gerade hier......
Andy Battentier: A Sociology of Sound Technicians
If art, and especially music, has been framed in cultural sociology as a collective production relying on a variety of actors, technicians have been mostly framed as "support personnel" marginally impacting the meaning of a cultural production. This book analyzes sound technicians as technical intermediaries. They are autonomous actors of.......
Alfred Smudits (ed.): Roads to Music Sociology
Music sociology occupies a special position in the social and cultural sciences. The terminology alone – in German it is ‘Musiksoziologie’ and not ‘Soziologie der Musik’ – indicates many possible approaches: Is ‘music sociology’ a subdiscipline within sociology or musicology? Or is it a discipline on its own...