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HE ULTURAL TUDY OF USIC
What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The
Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with
groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that
original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the
years since the book’s initial publication. Including contributions from
scholars of music, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and psychology,
this anthology provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of music
and culture. It includes both pioneering theoretical essays and exhaustively
researchedcase studies on particular issues in world musics. For the second
edition, the original essays have been revised and nine new chapters have
been added, covering such themes as race, religion, geography, technology
and the politics ofmusic. With an even broader scope and a larger roster
of world-renowned contributors, The Cultural Study of Musicis certain to
remain a canonical text in the field of cultural musicology.
Martin Claytonis Professor of Ethnomusicology at Durham University.
Trevor Herbertis Professor of Music at The Open University.
Richard Middletonis Emeritus Professor of Music at Newcastle University.
T C S
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A C I
RITICAL NTRODUCTION
SECONDEDITION
EDITED BY
MARTIN CLAYTON
TREVOR HERBERT
RICHARD MIDDLETON
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The cultural study of music : a critical introduction / edited by Martin Clayton,
Trevor Herbert, Richard Middleton. – 2nd ed.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Music–Social aspects. 2. Musicology. I. Clayton, Martin. II. Herbert, Trevor. III. Middleton,
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C
ONTENTS
Preface to the Second Edition ix
Notes on Contributors xiii
Introduction: Music Studies and the Idea of Culture 1
RICHARD MIDDLETON
PART 1 When? Musical Histories 15
Chapter1 Music and Biocultural Evolution 17
IAN CROSS
Chapter 2 Music and Culture: Historiographies of Disjuncture,
Ethnographies of Displacement 28
PHILIP V. BOHLMAN
Chapter 3 Historical Musicology: Is It Still Possible? 40
ROB C. WEGMAN
Chapter4 Social History and Music History 49
TREVOR HERBERT
Chapter 5 Musicology, Anthropology, History 59
GARY TOMLINSON
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PART 2 Where? Locations of Music 73
Chapter 6 Textual Analysis or Thick Description? 75
JEFF TODD TITON
Chapter 7 Comparing Music, Comparing Musicology 86
MARTIN CLAYTON
Chapter 8 The Destiny of “Diaspora” in Ethnomusicology 96
MARK SLOBIN
Chapter 9 Globalization and the Politics of World Music 107
MARTIN STOKES
Chapter 10 Contesting Difference: A Critique of Africanist
Ethnomusicology 117
KOFI AGAWU
Chapter 11 What a Difference a Name Makes: Two Instances
of African-American Popular Music 127
DAVID BRACKETT
Chapter 12 Music, Space, and Place: The Geography of Music 140
ADAM KRIMS
Chapter 13 Music and Everyday Life 149
SIMON FRITH
PART 3 How? Processes, Practices, and Institutions of Music 159
Chapter 14 Music, Culture, and Creativity 161
JASON TOYNBEE
Chapter 15 Musical Autonomy Revisited 172
DAVID CLARKE
Chapter 16 Music as Performance 184
NICHOLAS COOK
Chapter 17 The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments 195
KEVIN DAWE
Chapter 18 Music Education, Cultural Capital, and Social
Group Identity 206
LUCY GREEN
Chapter 19 Music Technology, or Technologies of Music? 217
BENNETT HOGG
Contents • vii
Chapter 20 Music and Material Culture 227
WILL STRAW
PART 4 Whose? Social Forces and Musical Belongings 237
Chapter 21 Music and Social Categories 239
JOHN SHEPHERD
Chapter 22 Music and Mediation: Toward a New Sociology of
Music 249
ANTOINE HENNION
Chapter 23 Music and the Social 261
GEORGINA BORN
Chapter 24 Locating the People: Music and the Popular 275
RICHARD MIDDLETON
Chapter 25 Music and the Market: The Economics of Music
in the Modern World 288
DAVE LAING
Chapter 26 Music, Sound, and Religion 299
JEFFERS ENGELHARDT
Chapter 27 Music, Race, and the Fields of Public Culture 308
RONALD RADANO
Chapter 28 Music, Gender, and Sexuality 317
FRED EVERETT MAUS
PART 5 Who? Musical Subjectivities 331
Chapter 29 What’s Going On: Music, Psychology, and Ecological
Theory 333
ERIC F. CLARKE
Chapter 30 Musical Materials, Perception, and Listening 343
NICOLA DIBBEN
Chapter 31 Music, Experience, and the Anthropology of Emotion 353
RUTH FINNEGAN
Chapter 32 Towards a Political Aesthetics of Music 364
DAVID HESMONDHALGH
Chapter 33 Music and the Subject: Three Takes 375
JOHN MOWITT
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Chapter 34 Of Mice and Dogs: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
at the Long Fin-de-Siècle 384
IAN BIDDLE
Chapter 35 Subjectivity Unbound: Music, Language, Culture 395
LAWRENCE KRAMER
References 407
Index 441
P S E
REFACE TO THE ECOND DITION
The first edition of The Cultural Study of Musicwas published in 2003 and
it is gratifying that we have been given the opportunity to produce a new
edition, which is significantly extended and revised. It was clear soon after
the 2003 publicationwas releasedthat the book was receiving a very positive
reception in what publishers sometimes describe as “several market seg-
ments.” By this they mean (we think) that people were finding the book
interesting and helpful in different ways and perhaps for different purposes.
We have always felt that the book’s original success was due to two key
features. We had been fortunate enough to attract a group of extremely
distinguishedwriters from both sides of the Atlantic who had responded to
the brief we gave them with chapters that were thought-provoking and
original. Also, we had, perhaps to a greater extent than we may have fully
grasped as we assembled our ideas in 2001/2, identified an important place
and need for a book of the type it turned out to be: one that covers cultural
approaches to the study of music by focusing on themes from several of the
perspectives from which music and the activities associated with it can be
investigated and critiqued.
We stuck steadfastly to a few self-imposed rules when assembling the first
edition and as they have served us so well we have not deserted them. For
example, while we have been clear about the themes that we wanted to be
addressedin the book, we have not made dogmatic interventions into the
content of individual chapters or the way they should be written. To put this
somewhat differently, authors have been given freedom to develop and set
out their ideas in the way they individually see fit, beyond of course the
normal and commonsense processes that editors need to follow to assure
