Portable Music and Its Functions
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Music [Meanings]
ISBN-10
0820481254
ISBN-13
9780820481258
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 30th, 2006
Print length
127 Pages
Weight
190 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 22.80 x 0.90 cms
Product Classification:
Society & culture: generalPopulation & demographySociology: customs & traditions
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Popular music plays a prominent role in the cultural transformations that are constantly reshaping our world. Music is at the center of contemporary debates about globalization, electronic commerce, space and locality, style and identity, subculture and community. Music [Meanings] offers book-length studies examining the impact of popular music on individuals, cultures and societies. The series addresses popular music as a form of communication and culture from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Using iPods or portable CD players, millions of people take their music with them every day to modify their daily experiences. Encased in headphones, they listen to music for entertainment, but also use it, among other things, as a buffer between themselves and the world outside, and to manage their moods. What is it about music that makes it useful in different ways to so many people? Have people always used music in these ways, or only since the technology of the Walkman and then the mp3 player made music portable?
In this wide-ranging exploration of how and why we use portable music, Andrew Williams sheds new light on the role music plays in our everyday lives. Portable Music and Its Functions will be of use to students and scholars of sociology and cultural studies as well as of musicology.
In this wide-ranging exploration of how and why we use portable music, Andrew Williams sheds new light on the role music plays in our everyday lives. Portable Music and Its Functions will be of use to students and scholars of sociology and cultural studies as well as of musicology.
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