Music in Everyday Life

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 196 pages
• Published by: Cambridge University Press
• Edition: 1st Edition June 26, 2000
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 052162732X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521627320
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 12 ounces

Product Review
"Original in conception and based on years of research, this book offers interpretive and cultural sociologist a novel point of entree into the study of embodied lived meaning." Daniel Thomas Cook, American Journal Of Sociology

"With Music in Everyday Life, DeNora has crafted an important cultural analysis of the consumption of music.Music in Everyday Life is a thoughtful, well-written book that contains important theoretical and substantive contributions. It should be well received by sociologists of popular music, sociological social psychologists, and ethnomusicologists alike." Contemporary Sociology

Product Description
The power of music in everyday life is widely recognized and this is reflected in social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an influence on character, social structure and action. This book uses a series of ethnographic studies and in-depth interviews to show how music is a constitutive feature of human agency. Drawing together concepts from psychology, sociology and sociolinguistics it develops a theory of music's active role in the construction of social life and highlights the aesthetic dimension of social order and organization in modern societies.

Reader Reviews
This is an excellent study of how people use music to structure their lives. DeNora is interested in how people use music to create identities for themselves, change their mood, and structure their interactions with other. I was particularly fascinated by her remarks on the use of music in neonatal intensive care units to help the little ones stabilize their body states, and in her study of how aerobics instructor use different kinds of music to structure a workout. She also talks about how stores and malls use music to create an identity for the enterprise and to alter customer mood in a way that favors shopping. Comment | | (Report this)