TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Howard Becker’s theory for the sociology of art (including music) revolves around the simple, and often overlooked fact, “All artistic work, like all human activity, involves the joint activity of a number, often a large number, of people.” Among Becker’s writing about music, he presents an idea that I find is still relevant today, namely, that sociological and ethnomusicological work seem to be two hands of a single body that have little idea of what each other are doing. Drawing on the work of scholars such as Becker and Kay Kaufman Shelemay, I propose a model for the construction of the music event that highlights the relationship among the many systems behind the musical experience. I provide a case study of Inuit throat singing to demonstrate the effectiveness of this model in trying to explore the relationships among music, culture, and society.
VL  - 42
SN  - 978-1-78350-838-9, 978-1-78350-837-2/0163-2396
DO  - 10.1108/S0163-239620140000042000
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-239620140000042000
AU  - van den Scott Jeffrey
PY  - 2014
Y1  - 2014/01/01
TI  - Experiencing the Music: Toward a Visual Model for the Social Construction of Music
T2  - Revisiting Symbolic Interaction in Music Studies and New Interpretive Works
T3  - Studies in Symbolic Interaction
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 3
EP  - 19
Y2  - 2024/04/26
ER  -