FF:VH_33 Sociology of Music - Course Information
VH_33 Aspects of Sociology of Music
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- 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
- doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Alena Albíniová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts - 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
- there are 10 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- 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
- Hudební věda. Praha 1988, s. 115-117, 506-540.
- ELSCHEK, OSKÁR: Hudobná veda súčasnosti. Systematika, teória, vývin. Bratislava, Veda 1984, s. 195-214.
- 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)
- The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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