Social Change and Musical Classification Systems: The US, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, 1955-2005 Open Access
Schmutz, Vaughn Clayton (2010)
Abstract
Abstract
Social Change and Musical Classification Systems:
The US, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, 1955-2005
By Vaughn C. Schmutz
This dissertation addresses the relationship between broad
dimensions of social change
and the ways in which music is classified in four countries from
1955 to 2005. In
particular, the substantive chapters examine the impact of
globalization,
commercialization, and social heterogeneity and inequality on the
relative position of
classical and popular music in each country, the cultural
legitimacy of various actors and
music genres, and the extent of hierarchy and differentiation in
the musical field.
Drawing extensively on content analysis of newspapers in the four
countries in reference
years between 1955 and 2005, this dissertation shows that popular
music has gained
considerable cultural legitimacy in the four countries, although
the extent and timing of
this trend varies. In addition, this dissertation demonstrates that
the four countries
demonstrate a greater international orientation to popular music
actors, while remaining
highly focused on the affluent centers of music production in
popular music and more
oriented to domestic and European actors in classical music (see
chapter 2). Trends
toward greater commercialization in cultural production are shown
to occur alongside the
growing autonomy of music critics and a greater tendency to adopt a
critical, evaluative
perspective on popular music (see chapter 3). Chapter 4 represents
a rare attempt to
empirically test Paul DiMaggio's influential theory of artistic
classification systems. The
chapter indicates that social heterogeneity and inequality have
both expected and
unexpected relationships to the extent of differentiation and
hierarchy evident in the
musical classification systems of the four countries. In general,
the dissertation builds on
cross-national comparative research to add to our understanding of
the relationship
between social change and processes of cultural legitimacy and
classification.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter one
1
Introduction: Social change and musical classification
systems
Chapter two
18
Globalization and musical hierarchy in the US, France, Germany, and
the Netherlands
Chapter three
60
Commercialization and legitimacy in the field of popular
music
Chapter four
93
Toward and empirical test of artistic classification theory
Chapter five
124
Conclusion
References
133
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