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Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture
Harris M. Berger
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Description for Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture
paperback. How we find and make meaning through music and performance Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819568786
SKU
V9780819568786
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About Harris M. Berger
HARRIS M. BERGER is an associate professor of music and performance studies at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Metal, Rock, and Jazz (1999) and coauthor of Identity and Everyday Life (2004).
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