پس از آدورنو: بازاندیشی در پژوهش جامعه‌شناختی موسیقی

by Tia DeNora, حسن خیاطی (Translator)

تیا دِنورا، استاد دانشگاه اکستر، بی‌گمان مهم‌ترین چهره‌ی آکادمیک در حوزه‌ی جامعه‌شناسی موسیقی در دهه‌های اخیر است که با پژوهش‌های متنوع و بین‌رشته‌ای خویش سهم بسزایی در احیای این رشته داشته است. پس از آدورنو کوششی است در جهت تدوین برنامه‌ای پژوهشی برای جامعه‌شناسی موسیقی تا به کمک آن بتوان سهم موسیقی را بر صورت‌بندی ساحت‌های مختلف جامعه بررسی کرد. به همین منظور، دِنورا در کتاب حاضر، با بهره‌گیری از میراث فکری آدورنو و همزمان نقد آن‌ها، تفسیر تازه‌ای از این حوزه‌ی پژوهشی ارائه می‌دهد، و در این راه از میراث فکری صاحب‌نظرانی همچون هوارد بکر، لیدیا گر، کریستوفر اسمال، اروینگ گافمن، برونو لاتور بهره می‌برد تا به جای نظریه‌پردازی‌های کلان و غیرواقعی موسیقی را «در عمل» و در بطن موقعیت‌های اجتماعی بررسی کند. ماحصل کار او به پژوهشگران یاری می‌رساند تا قدرت موسیقی را در گستره‌های اجتماعی بسیار متنوع و حتی به صورت بین‌رشته‌ای تحلیل نمایند.

Genres: Music, Nonfiction, Sociology

299 pages, Paperback

First published November 5, 1999

Reviews

[Owlseyes · Rating 4 out of 5]

"La riflessione adorniana, così differenziata e diversificata al suo interno, nasce, innanzitutto, come riflessione musicologica."
IN: "THEODOR W. ADORNO Pensiero critico e musica" by Giacomo Fronzi

"El jazz es un manierismo de interpretación. Y, como ocurre en toda moda, de lo que se trata es dela presentación, y no de la cosa; lo que se hace es la permanente a la música fácil, a los más desalados productos de la industria de la canción." (...) "La paradójica inmortalidad del jazz arraiga en la economía.
Theodor Adorno in: "Prismas, La Crítica de la Cultura y la Sociedad"


(Adorno listening to jazz...; is it just "noise"?)



"Music is similar to language" (...) "music is not language"
"To interpret language means to understand language; to interpret music means to make music"
IN: "Music, Language, and Composition," Adorno's essay of 1956

Tia DeNora's contains a lot of Musicology (some ecology, too) but little of Adorno. It contains, as well, some references to music therapy (check on the cases of Lucy and Elaine).

As to Adorno, he wouldn't see (or hear) beyond the "noise". Pity. But even a Pink Panther would. Please, ask Henry Mancini about.

I would venture saying: after Adorno is A.I. .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03xMI...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emidx...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs1Og...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y48xG...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJt_r...

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UPDATE

I am really curious about Adorno on Portuguese "fado".

[Grandeurs · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fantastic extension of DeNora's methodological arguments in Music in Everyday Life, alongside an homage/elaboration of "Teddy" Adorno's pioneering work in the sociology of music. The latter part of the project focuses on bringing Adorno's concerns with the music-society nexus to what she calls the 'correct level of generality.' That is, a focus on what particular musics afford particular listeners in particular environments. Her concerns over over-generalized Cultural Studies-type analysis making broad claims about society without venturing far from "the coffin of the text" (a great phrase she quotes) ring very true, and it is a warning I'd like to heed. The only thing missing is a more direct engagement with Adorno's 'negative dialectics' - seemingly the part of Adorno most at odds with DeNora's empirical approach. But this isn't a philosophy book, so maybe that is a lot to ask.

[Jules · Rating 5 out of 5]

This ate way harder than I was expecting it to!!!! I was so expecting a sort of Birmingham School sort of critique... we've all heard it... that Adorno is too elitist, that he doesn't consider the creation process, that his take on tech is too outdated. WELL... this book is so much better than that. In particular, DeNora absolutely nails their inquiry into the affective element of music, and the way that bodies within space intersect with the temporal element of music as a medium. I feel like this embracing of the sort of affective turn of sociology compliments and expands on Adorno's idea of social consciousness quite well. Overall a very thought provoking and innovative read!