The course deals with the relationship between music and society in the following twofold aspects: a) “music as agency” in everyday life; b) the social construction of the carriers of musical texts and musicians. The first part of the course will provide to the students the analytical tools for understanding how and to what extent the music can contribute to construct the social meanings of experience, time and space. The second part will address and problematize the notion of musical genius, by showing its social aspects.
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2) Anna Lisa Tota (2001), When Orff meets Guiness: music in advertising as a form of cultural hybrid, «Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media and the Arts», n. 29, pp. 109-123.
3) Tia DeNora (2001), Memoria e tradizione nella costruzione del talento di Beethoven, in La memoria contesa. Studi sulla comunicazione sociale del passato, a cura di Anna Lisa Tota, Milano, Angeli, pp. 172-196.
4) Tia De Nora (2000), Corpo e genere al piano. Repertorio, tecnologia e comportamento nella Vienna di Beethoven, “Rassegna italiana di Sociologia, n. XII, n. 2, aprile –giugno, pp. 165-188.
5) Pinan Güran and Tia DeNora (2016), Remembering through music: Turkish diasporic identities in Berlin, in Anna Lisa Tota and Trever Hagen (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies, London, Routledge, pp. 233-246.
6) Tia DeNora (1999), Music as a Technology of the Self, «Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media and the Arts» (27), pp. 31-56.
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7) Norbert Elias (1991), Mozart. Sociologia di un genio, Bologna, il Mulino, pp. 1-162.
The articles (from 1 to 6) will be available for the students on the website http://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo.uniroma3.it (see the professor's webpage).
Programme
The course deals with the relationship between music and society focusing on the following twofold aspects: a) “music as agency” in everyday life; b) the social construction of the carriers of musical texts and musicians. The first part of the course will provide to the students the analytical tools for understanding how and to what extent the music can contribute to construct the social meanings of experience, time and space. In everyday life music can function as technology of memory, emotions, cognition, constructing for the listeners frames, within which they are asked to experience their life. There are songs that contributed to defend human rights (“Nick and Bart”), others that became symbols of an epoch, historically and/or politically. The second part will address and problematize the notion of musical genius, by showing its social aspects. It will focus on the relation among genius, ethnicity, gender and social class.Core Documentation
1) Anna Lisa Tota (2000), Musica e vita quotidiana: la composizione musicale dell’esperienza sociale, «Konsequenz», 3-4, pp. 63-72.2) Anna Lisa Tota (2001), When Orff meets Guiness: music in advertising as a form of cultural hybrid, «Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media and the Arts», n. 29, pp. 109-123.
3) Tia DeNora (2001), Memoria e tradizione nella costruzione del talento di Beethoven, in La memoria contesa. Studi sulla comunicazione sociale del passato, a cura di Anna Lisa Tota, Milano, Angeli, pp. 172-196.
4) Tia De Nora (2000), Corpo e genere al piano. Repertorio, tecnologia e comportamento nella Vienna di Beethoven, “Rassegna italiana di Sociologia, n. XII, n. 2, aprile –giugno, pp. 165-188.
5) Pinan Güran and Tia DeNora (2016), Remembering through music: Turkish diasporic identities in Berlin, in Anna Lisa Tota and Trever Hagen (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies, London, Routledge, pp. 233-246.
6) Tia DeNora (1999), Music as a Technology of the Self, «Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media and the Arts» (27), pp. 31-56.
Moreover:
7) Norbert Elias (1991), Mozart. Sociologia di un genio, Bologna, il Mulino, pp. 1-162.
The articles (from 1 to 6) will be available for the students on the website http://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo.uniroma3.it (see the professor's webpage).
Type of delivery of the course
The course will be based on traditional lectures and one workshop with working-groups.Type of evaluation
Additional teaching materials will be published on the personal web page of the professor hosted on the website of the Department of Philosophy,Communication and Arts (http://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo.uniroma3.it). The written exam will last two hours and it will consist of three questions, that the students will have to reply extensively.