(Download) "Mass, Class, And Audience: Beyond the Glenn Gould Problem (Critical Essay)" by Modern Age # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Mass, Class, And Audience: Beyond the Glenn Gould Problem (Critical Essay)
- Author : Modern Age
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 191 KB
Description
The critical point of crossover between sociological and musicological forms of analysis is audience. Earlier varieties of analysis that dwelt on composers, performers, and compositions have given way to changes in the mode and size of audience participation. Music as an object for purchase may not be what musicians have in mind at the moment of creation or invention, but in the final analysis the listener, as a buyer of tickets to a concert or a drinker at a bar with a piano player in the background recalling classic melodies, is very much part of the cultural process. Changes in electronic technology alter the consumption no less than the production of music. Bluntly put: Has the mass audience of the twentieth century fizzled into the elite savant groups of the twenty-first century? The burden of this analysis is to provide some operational guideline, if not exactly a full-scale answer to this question. The issue of audience size and participation has emerged in a new technological universe. It has come to preoccupy social scientists and musicologists alike. Whether, in an era of astonishingly high-quality recordings and systems of private audio retrieval systems, people will continue to attend live concert performances becomes a core issue. My purpose in this exercise is to provide a sense of those elements relating to concert hall attendance in an effort to seek a realistic response to this vexing and compelling question. For what is at stake is the heritage of culture as such. In doing so, I will draw upon an extramusical, or a sociological tradition that takes into consideration symbolic interactional elements and extramusical considerations, specifically, the social verification of status, musician and audience networks, comparison and confirmation of talent, audiences as confirmation of social tastes, cultural exclusivity afforded by attendance, the act of enjoyment apart from considerations of purchases, and finally, the role of the new technology involved in "live" versus "recorded" music sounds.
 "Mass, Class, And Audience: Beyond the Glenn Gould Problem (Critical Essay)" by Modern Age # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free){kind=link}