A Critique and Renewal of Bourdieu's Influence on the Sociology of Culture and Music, Slides of Sociology

Download A Critique and Renewal of Bourdieu's Influence on the Sociology of Culture and Music and more Slides Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! After Bourdieu Critique and Renewal in the Sociology of Culture Docsity.com Culture: What’s the Problem?  Projection: the “problem of culture” is in the body of criticism  Presents discursively: culture industry of culture talk: turns, returns, critiques, renewals  “We are living now in the aftermath of what one might call high theory, in an age which, having grown rich on the insights of thinkers like Althusser, Barthes and Derrida, has also in some ways moved beyond them” (Eagleton, After Theory, 2003) Docsity.com Bourdieu: A Love Story 1) Exegesis and Understanding 2) Application 3) Critique A) Cultural capital: Sarah Thornton Clubcultures, Routledge (1995) B) Habitus: homologies between social stratification and cultural consumption in UK, musical clusters, “musical families”, Centre for Research on Socio-Economic Change (CRESC) C) Field: genre, style and production are social accomplishments enacted relationally in historically accreted fields Docsity.com “Putting a Glitch in the Field” (Prior, 2008) FIELD OF CULTURAL PRODUCTION (MUSIC) LAR G LARGE-SCALE SUB-FIELD “COMME COMMERCIAL POP / ROCK” Autonomy / “Intellectual” Audience / Low Economic Capital Heteronomy / Market / “Mass Audience” / High Economic Capital CC + / EC - CC + / EC + RESTRICTED SUB-FIELD “AVANT-GARDE / EXPERIMENTAL” CC- / EC - GLITCH Symbolic profit Self-authored / specialist software “Research sector” Production for other producers Small independent labels Performance: automated absence Specialist music magazines Ryoji Ikeda / Oval / Alva Noto Economic Profit Free / industry-standard software Mass audiences / economies of scale Majors and big independent labels Performance: authenticity and presence Mainstream magazines Radiohead / Björk / Madonna Docsity.com Beyond Bourdieu  “Cultural Omnivores” (Peterson), dynamic and reflexive institutions, less reductive ontologies, intra-individual variations in cultural practices (Lahire)  Bourdieu’s reductive account of the aesthetic, the specificities of the object and the inventive agency of the producer; denial of musical value beyond social value  Crisis of constructivism Docsity.com