Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture (Music / Culture)

Berger, Harris M.

ISBN 10: 0819568783 / ISBN 13: 9780819568786

Published by Wesleyan University Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture (Music / Culture)
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819568783
• ISBN 13: 9780819568786
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

How we find and make meaning through music and performance

Why does music move us? How do the immediate situation and larger social contexts influence the meanings that people find in stories, rituals, or films? How do people engage with the images and sounds of a performance to make them come alive in sensuous, lived experience? Exploring these questions, Stance presents a major new theory of emotion, style, and meaning for the study of expressive culture. In clear language, the book reveals dimensions of lived experience that everyone is aware of but that scholars rarely account for.

Though music is at the heart of the book, its arguments are illustrated with a wide range of clear examples―from the heavy metal concert to the recital hall, from festivals to dance, stand-up comedy, the movies, and beyond. Helping ethnographers get closer to the experiences of the people with whom they work, this book will be of immediate interest to anyone in ethnomusicology, folklore, popular music studies, anthropology, or performance studies.

About the Author

HARRIS M. BERGER is associate professor of music and performance studies at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Metal, Rock, and Jazz (1999) and coauthor of Identity and Everyday Life (2004). He has served as the president of the U.S. branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and is the coeditor of the Journal of American Folklore.