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Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music
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This article is published in The Journal of American Culture.The article was published on 1998-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 366 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Value (mathematics) & Popular music.read more
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The concept of entrainment and its significance for ethnomusicology
TL;DR: This publication opens with an exposition of entrainment research in various disciplines, from physics to linguistics and psychology, while systematically introducing basic concepts that are directly relevant to musicalEntrainment.
Journal ArticleDOI
Music Lovers: Taste as performance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the implications, objectives and initial results of a current ethnographic research project on music lovers, focusing on gestures, objects, mediums, devices and relations engaged in a form of playing or listening, which amounts to more than the actualization of a taste ''already there''.
The metaphysics of improvisation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a taxonomy of the most common types of choices available to an improviser at the time of performing an improvised piece, including the most important ones from a phenomenological perspective.
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When materiality ‘bites back’: Digital music consumption practices in the age of dematerialization
TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt a theory-of-practice approach to analyse the consequences of dematerialization on the practices of digital music consumption, focusing on the appropriation of three specific technologies involved into the contemporary consumption of music: the iPod, the external hard drive and the vinyl disc.
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Cultural Capital Today: a case study from Denmark
TL;DR: In this article, a critical assessment of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of social differentiation in advanced societies as a multi-dimensional phenomenon is carried out based on Danish survey data subjected to correspondence analysis, which leads to a discussion of four core questions: first, are there signs of a strong individualism and, correspondingly, a weak social structuring of lifestyles?