Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies

Antoine Hennion, Christophe Levaux

ISBN 10: 0367200546 / ISBN 13: 9780367200541

Published by Routledge; 1st edition (4 May 2021), 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies
• Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (4 May 2021)
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367200546
• ISBN 13: 9780367200541
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.6W x 2.24H x 23.39D centimeters 15.6 centimeters width by 2.24 centimeters height by 23.39 centimeters depth

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Synopsis

This volume seeks to offer a new approach to the study of music through the lens of recent works in science and technology studies (STS), which propose that facts are neither absolute truths, nor completely relative, but emerge from an intensely collective process of construction. Applied to the study of music, this approach enables us to reconcile the human, social, factual, and technological aspects of the musical world, and opens the prospect of new areas of inquiry in musicology and sound studies.

Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies draws together a wide range of both leading and emerging scholars to offer a critical survey of STS applications to music studies, considering topics ranging from classical music instrument-making to the ethos of DIY in punk music. The book’s four sections focus on key areas of music study that are impacted by STS: organology, sound studies, music history, and epistemology. Raising crucial methodological and epistemological questions about the study of music, this book will be relevant to scholars studying the interactions between music, culture, and technology from many disciplinary perspectives.

About the Author

Antoine Hennion is Professor at Mines ParisTech, and the former Director of the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation. He has written extensively on the sociology of music, media, and cultural industries.

Christophe Levaux is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liège, Belgium. His research focuses on approaches to 20th-century American music and Actor-Network Theory.