Open AccessTowards a cultural sociology of popular music
Author(s) -
Andy Bennett
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.688
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1741-2978
pISSN - 1440-7833
DOI - 10.1177/1440783308097130
Subject(s) - popular music , sociology , sociology of culture , music geography , popular culture , cultural analysis , cultural studies , musicology , style (visual arts) , relation (database) , social science , aesthetics , media studies , cultural geography , anthropology , visual arts , art , pedagogy , database , computer science , human geography
This article provides a series of critical reflections on the development of sociological studies in relation to popular music and the development of a cultural sociology of popular music. The piece begins by mapping the origins of popular music as a focus for academic study and the indebtedness of this body of work to Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies-style cultural studies analyses of popular music audiences and their reception of popular music texts. This is followed by a review of sociological work on popular music and the emergence of what could be termed a proto-cultural sociological approach. The final section of the article considers the cultural turn, its impact on cultural approaches to sociology and the significance of this for the development of a cultural sociology of popular music.Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social SciencesFull Tex
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