Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture (Music / Culture)

Annotation Why does music move us? How do the immediate situation and larger social contexts influence the meanings that people find in stories, rituals, or films? How do people engage with the images and sounds of a performance to make them come alive in sensuous, lived experience? Exploring these questions, Stance presents a major new theory of emotion, style, and meaning for the study of expressive culture. In clear language, the book reveals dimensions of lived experience that everyone is aware of but that scholars rarely account for. Though music is at the heart of the book, its arguments are illustrated with a wide range of clear examples--from the heavy metal concert to the recital hall, from festivals to dance, stand-up comedy, the movies, and beyond. Helping ethnographers get closer to the experiences of the people with whom they work, this book will be of immediate interest to anyone in ethnomusicology, folklore, popular music studies, anthropology, or performance studies How We Find And Make Meaning Through Music And Performance? Why Does Music Move Us? How Do The Immediate Situation And Larger Social Contexts Influence The Meanings That People Find In Stories, Rituals, Or Films? 'stance Is A Study That Challenges Conventional Thinking About Cultural Experience. It Presents The Rare Combination Of High-level Philosophical Theory And A Serious Engagement With A Wide Range Of Cultural Practices In Everyday Life - From Heavy Metal Guitar Performance To Undergraduate Recitals, And Beyond To Mass Media Entertainment', Says Fabian Holt, Author Of Genre In Popular Music. This Book Will Be Of Immediate Interest To Anyone In Ethnomusicology, Folklore, Popular Music Studies, Anthropology, Or Performance Studies.--jacket. Locating Stance -- Structures Of Stance In Lived Experience -- Stance And Others, Stance And Lives -- The Social Life Of Stance And The Politics Of Expressive Culture. Harris M. Berger. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.