Music and the sociological gaze EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / General

Music and the sociological gaze EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / GeneralAt a time when the social analysis of music is receiving unprecedented attention, this important new book demonstrates ways in which sociological ideas can make a distinct contribution to understanding music. In doing so, it also highlights the contrasts between a sociological perspective and those emanating from cultural studies and musicology.

In Performing Spanishness

and to highlight the way Spanish poliitcal cartoons were used as humourous subversive tools

Dr Reznick shows that Britain’s ‘generation of 1914’ was a group bound as much by comradeship of healing as by comradeship of the trenches

Day pairs images with commentary that details the aspects of the work that are visually expounded and explain in Day's images

at global film festivals and on DVD shelves

It combines an emphasis on how to read individual modernist artefacts with a wide-ranging survey of this diverse and ground-breaking movement

Full and comprehensive introduction

demonstrating how it can exacerbate a conflict

‘The Technocene’ is a selection of some of the most important philosophical essays – a few unpublished – that he wrote following retirement from the University of Oxford

This book explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a range of films from the 1920s to the present and looks at how love is portrayed in cinema across Europe and the United States

the Cross and the Curve – Withers guides the reader through the complexity of Bush’s art and how it transformed popular culture

the British censors