FF:VH_33 Sociology of Music - Course Information

VH_33 Aspects of Sociology of Music

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Mikuláš Bek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Tereza Horlitz, DiS. (assistant)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Jana Perutková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová

Timetable

Mon 15:00–16:35 J21

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

At the end of the course students should be able to:
explain the basic notions and theoretical concepts of the sociology of music;
identify the elementary methodological positions of the important representatives of the sociology of music;
locate the main theoretical concepts in the development of the social sciences and musicology;
apply the theoretical concepts in the analysis of the particular cases in the history of music and contemporary musical culture.

Syllabus

• Origins and developments of the sociology of music
• General sociology and its development: traditional and modern societies
• Sociology of music and ethnomusicology
• Troubadors and the sociology of minnesang
• Social position of musicians in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
• Opera as an institutions
• Concert as an institution
• Social role of the composer
• Music industry
• Mass culture and musical culture
• Introduction to the methods of the empirical research in the sociology of music

Literature

• ELSCHEK, OSKÁR: Hudobná veda súčasnosti. Systematika, teória, vývin. Bratislava, Veda 1984, s. 195-214.
• Hudební věda. Praha 1988, s. 115-117, 506-540.
• Další texty ve virtuální knihovně
• Soziale Horizonte von Musik : ein kommentiertes Lesebuch zur Musiksoziologie. Edited by Christian Kaden - Karsten Mackensen - Detlef Giese. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2006, 353 s. ISBN 3761815980. info
• KADEN, Christian. Das Unerhörte und das Unhörbare : was Musik ist, was Musik sein kann. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2004, 329 s. ISBN 3476019845. info
• BEK, Mikuláš. Konzervatoř Evropy? K sociologii české hudebnosti (Conservatory of Europe? On the Sociology of Czech Musicality). Praha: KLP - Koniasch Latin Press, 2003, 278 pp. musicologica.cz, sv. 1. ISBN 80-85917-99-8. info
• BLAUKOPF, Kurt. Musik im Wandel der Gesellschaft :Grundzüge der Musiksoziologie. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1996, xv, 335 s. ISBN 3-534-13002-2. info
• MARTIN, Peter J. Sounds and society. Themes in the sociology of music. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1995, 298 pp. ISBN 0 7190 3223 7. info
• KADEN, Christian. Des Lebens wilder Kreis :Musik im Zivilisationsprozeß. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1993, 248 s., 24. ISBN 3-7618-1147-0. info
• BEK, Mikuláš. Vybrané problémy hudební sociologie. (Aspects of Sociology of Music). 1st ed. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1993, 96 pp. ISBN 80-7067-318-4. info
• ČERNÝ, Jaromír. Hudba v českých dějinách :od středověku do nové doby. Praha: Supraphon, 1989, 483 s., [1. ISBN 80-7058-163-8. info
• KADEN, Christian. Musiksoziologie (Sociology of Music). Berlin: Verlag Neue Musik, 1984, 475 pp. info
• ADORNO, Theodor W. Einleitung in die Musiksoziologie :zwölf theoretische Vorlesugen. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 1968, 252 s. ISBN 3-499-55292-2. info
• MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Fonction, norme et valeur esthétiques comme faits sociaux. Praha: Fr. Borový, 1936, 85 stran. info

Teaching methods

Lectures and readings.

Assessment methods

Written test and oral exam.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.

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