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Understanding society through popular music / Joseph A. Kotarba.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: Third editionDescription: xxii, 234 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138806511
  • 9781138806528
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.48424 Un21 23
LOC classification:
  • ML3918.P67 K67 2018
Contents:
The sociology of popular music / Joseph A. Kotarba -- Social interaction / Joseph A. Kotarba -- The family / Joseph A. Kotarba -- The self, identity, and the life course / Joseph A. Kotarba -- Youth, deviance, and subcultures / Joseph A. Kotarba -- Religion, politics, and popular music / Joseph A. Kotarba -- Class and gender / Joseph A. Kotarba -- Hip-hop culture and social change / Raphael Travis and Scott W. Bowman -- Music and social media / Christopher J. Schneider -- Business in the music community / Rachel Skaggs and Jonathan R. Wynn -- The globalization of popular music: a focus on women in Poland / Katarzyna M. Wyrzykowska.
Summary: Written for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Popular Culture courses, this book uses popular music to illustrate fundamental social institutions, theories, sociological concepts, and processes. The authors use music, a social phenomenon of great interest, to draw students in and bring life to their study of social life.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index.

The sociology of popular music / Joseph A. Kotarba -- Social interaction / Joseph A. Kotarba -- The family / Joseph A. Kotarba -- The self, identity, and the life course / Joseph A. Kotarba -- Youth, deviance, and subcultures / Joseph A. Kotarba -- Religion, politics, and popular music / Joseph A. Kotarba -- Class and gender / Joseph A. Kotarba -- Hip-hop culture and social change / Raphael Travis and Scott W. Bowman -- Music and social media / Christopher J. Schneider -- Business in the music community / Rachel Skaggs and Jonathan R. Wynn -- The globalization of popular music: a focus on women in Poland / Katarzyna M. Wyrzykowska.

Written for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Popular Culture courses, this book uses popular music to illustrate fundamental social institutions, theories, sociological concepts, and processes. The authors use music, a social phenomenon of great interest, to draw students in and bring life to their study of social life.

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