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Playing to win: A cultural sociology of the international music competition.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Playing to win: A cultural sociology of the international music competition./
Author:	McCormick, Lisa Lorraine Helen.
Description:	241 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Jeffrey C. Alexander.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-01A.
Subject:	Music. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3342731
ISBN:	9780549978039

Playing to win: A cultural sociology of the international music competition.
McCormick, Lisa Lorraine Helen.

Playing to win: A cultural sociology of the international music competition. - 241 p.

Adviser: Jeffrey C. Alexander.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2008.

Performance is a key issue in cultural sociology. This concept has been central to theories of social action from Parsons' role theory to Goffman's dramaturgical metaphor. But it has remained under-developed in the study of cultural forms, even performing arts such as music. In this study, I develop a theory of music as a mode of social performance that builds on cultural pragmatics and the performative turn in musicology. This new theoretical framework is elaborated through the empirical study of international music competitions in the world of classical music. Despite their proliferation and the ongoing controversy over their function, music competitions have been neglected by sociologists. I investigate this institution from several angles using a combination of qualitative methods. Through the ethnographic observation of five case studies on three continents, in-depth interviews with participants, and discourse analysis of media coverage, publicity materials, and online forums, I analyze the representation and interpretation of competitions in the public sphere, the social construction of competitors, the presentation of musical self, the moral basis of aesthetic judgment, and the cultural contradictions of the musical public. I argue that music competitions are of great consequence not only because they control the distribution of symbolic capital in the music world, but also because they provide a public forum where competing meanings, ideals, and cultural commitments are negotiated. This study ultimately shows that theories of performance need to be attentive to the organizational and institutional settings that provide resources for their accomplishment.

ISBN: 9780549978039Subjects--Topical Terms:

516178
Music.

Playing to win: A cultural sociology of the international music competition.
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