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Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans

The Music Never Ends

By: Joseph A. Kotarba

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Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans

The Music Never Ends

By: Joseph A. Kotarba

Based on 18 years of sociological research and 52 years of rock 'n' roll fandom, Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans: The Music Never Ends draws on data collected from participant observations and interviews with artists, fans, and producers to explore our aging rock culture throug...

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0810884836

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9780810884830

Understanding Society Through Popular Music

By: Joseph A. Kotarba,Bryce Merrill,J. Patrick Williams,Phillip Vannini

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Understanding Society Through Popular Music

By: Joseph A. Kotarba,Bryce Merrill,J. Patrick Williams,Phillip Vannini

Written for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Popular Music courses, the second edition of Understanding Society through Popular Music 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 sociology. The new edition has been updated with cutting edge thinking on and current examples of subcultures, politics, and technology.

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218

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Routledge

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0415641942

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9780415641944

Music in the Course of Life

By: Joseph A. Kotarba

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Music in the Course of Life

By: Joseph A. Kotarba

This book illustrates how social meanings provided by music are experienced throughout the course of life. To this end, the author examines in depth the concepts of self, identity, socialization, and the life course itself. Social scientists have traditionally focused on music experiences among different generations, one at a time, with an emphasis on young audiences. This book explores appreciation for and use of music as a dynamic process that does not begin when we enter adolescence, nor end when we become adults. It demonstrates the relationship between the experience of music and the experience of self as a fundamental feature of the more general relationship of the individual to society. Music completes the circle of life. The author bases his analysis on observations made through a variety of qualitative studies and methodologies, as well as his own music autobiography. Clear and jargon free, this book is a timely application of key concepts from the everyday life sociologies for scholars and students in the sociology of music and culture and other related disciplines such as anthropology and ethnomusicology. It will be of interest for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses in culture, music, symbolic interaction, social psychology, and qualitative research methods.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000783928

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9781000783926

Contested Meanings

The Construction of Alcohol Problems

By: Joseph R. Gusfield

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Contested Meanings

The Construction of Alcohol Problems

By: Joseph R. Gusfield

The theme throughout Contested Meanings is the conflicting and changing ways society defines social problems. He emerges in the course of the book as a thoughtful and realistic social critic who looks beyond analyses of drinking as pathological behavior to consider the place of alcohol in American popular and leisure culture.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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029914934X

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9780299149345

Music in the Course of Life

By: Joseph A. Kotarba

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Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans

The Music Never Ends

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Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans

Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans

Understanding Society Through Popular Music

Understanding Society Through Popular Music

Music in the Course of Life

Music in the Course of Life

Contested Meanings

Contested Meanings

Music in the Course of Life

Music in the Course of Life

Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans

Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans

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