Course: Sociology of Music

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Course title Sociology of Music
Course code KMU/HSC
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Křupková Lenka, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
. Origins and Development of the Sociology of Music: Methodological Issues I - General sociology: the emergence and development of sociology as a discipline; major research areas; key scholars - Empirical and theoretical sociology - The emergence of the sociology of music - Principal research areas of the sociology of music - The problem of the sociological analysis of musical works 2. Origins and Development of the Sociology of Music: Methodological Issues II - Max Weber: Weberian ideal types and typologies in the sociology of music; the problem of evaluation and value neutrality - Other major scholars of the sociology of music (Theodor W. Adorno, John Henry Mueller, Alphons Silbermann, Kurt Blaukopf, Christian Kaden, John Shepherd) - Sociology of tone systems - Czech sociology of music 3. Principles of Empirical Research in the Sociology of Music - Qualitative and quantitative research - Stages of quantitative sociological research - Population and sample; sampling methods - Data collection techniques - Questionnaire design for research in the sociology of music 4. The Sociology of Czech Musical Life - The three surveys of musicality conducted by Vladimír Karbusický and Jaroslav Kasan (1963-1969) - Jaroslav Kasan's Survey of Musicality (1990) - Mikuláš Bek's Music Audiences in the Czech Republic (2001) - Interpretation of empirical findings in the sociology of music 5. The Sociology of Music History: Musicians in Medieval Europe - Troubadours in the changing society of the Middle Ages - Itinerant musicians 6. The Sociology of Music History: Bourgeois Musical Culture and the Concert Institution - The emergence of the bourgeois public sphere - The concert as a representative social institution of bourgeois society 7. The Sociology of Music History: The Sociology of Opera - Opera as a social and historical phenomenon - Operatic production in the Italian stagione system, the Paris Opera, and German court and municipal theatres - Participants in operatic production: impresarios and theatre managers, opera singers, and opera audiences - Theatre contracts, performing rights, and copyright 8. Women in Music - Gender perspectives in music - Women composers in music history - Women performers in music history - The musical salon as a counterpart to the public concert in bourgeois society 9. The Music Industry in Capitalist Society - A historical overview of the development of the music industry - Technology and music production 10. Critiques of Mass Musical Culture - The Frankfurt School - Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer: Dialectic of Enlightenment - Theodor W. Adorno and the fetish character of music - Walter Benjamin and the loss of the aura of the work of art - Pierre Bourdieu and cultural capital - Revisions of critical theory in Cultural Studies

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
  • Attendace - 26 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 24 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Exam - 25 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 25 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The course focuses on terminology, theoretical concepts, techniques and methods of sociological research. Attention will be also paid to interpretation of seminal texts and practical training.
The student: - is able to create a survey questionnaire for a musical-sociological research; - is capable of the practical application of techniques of the musical sociological research. Acquired qualifications: Knowledge of social structures of music life and its actors, or, the functioning of music institutions in different phases of the history of music, leads the student to a better understanding of the developmental process of music. A completion of the course significantly widens student's competences for next professional involvement in an organisation and management of music life.
Prerequisites
No preliminary courses required.

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark, Written exam, Student performance

Attendance, essay, preparation of a questionnaire for empirical music research.
Recommended literature
  • HUDEBNÍ SOCIOLOGIE, In: Hudební věda I-III, Praha 1988.
  • Adorno, Theodor, W. O fetišovém charakteru v hudbě a regresi slyšení, in: Divadlo 1964, č. 1-2..
  • Bek, Mikuláš. Konzervatoř Evropy? K sociologii české hudebnosti. Praha 2003..
  • Bek, Mikuláš:. Vybrané kapitoly hudební sociologie. Olomouc 1993.
  • BEK, Mikuláš. Vybrané kapitoly hudební sociologie. Olomouc. 1993.
  • BLAUKOPF, KURT:. Musik im Wandel der Gesellschaft, Darmstadt 1996.
  • DISMAN, Miroslav. Jak se vyrábí sociologická znalost. Praha 1998..
  • Heister, H. W. Das Konzert. eorie einer Kulturform. Wilhelmshaven 1982..
  • Karbusický, Vladimír - Kasan, Jaroslav: Karbusický, Vladimír. Výzkum současné hudebnosti. Díl 1. Výzkum z roku 1962. Díl 2. Výzkum z roku 1965/66. Praha 1969..
  • Karbusický, Vladimír. Teoretické předpoklady empiricko-sociologického výzkumu hudby. In: Hudební věda, 1965, č. 3..
  • Kolektiv autorů. Hudba v českých dějinách. Praha 1988..
  • KŘUPKOVÁ, Lenka. Kapitoly z hudební sociologie. Olomouc. 2013.
  • NOWAK, Raphaël - BENNETT, Andy. Music Sociology: Value, Technology, and Identity. 2022.
  • SHEPERD, John - DEVINE, Kyle. Sociology of Music (USA). Grove Music Online [online]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, datum poslední úpravy 25. 7. 2013. Dostupné z DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2242526. Oxford. 2013.
  • SHEPERD, John - DEVINE, Kyle. The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music. 2015.
  • WALTER, Michael. ?Die Oper ist ein Irrenhaus?. Sozialgeschichte der Oper im 19. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart ? Weimar. 1997.
  • Weber, Max. "Objektivita" sociálněvědního a sociálněpolitického poznání. In: Weber, M., Metodologie, sociologie a politika. Praha 1998..
  • Weber, Max. Smysl "hodnotové neutrality" v sociologických a ekonomických vědách. In: Weber, M., Metodologie, sociologie a politika. Praha 1998, s. 64-108..
  • Wicke, Peter. Hudební průmysl. Historicko-systematický nástin..
  • Wicke, Peter. Populární hudby jako průmyslový produkt..


Study plans that include the course
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Musicology (2019) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Musicology (2026) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Musicology (2019) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Musicology (2022) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Musicology (2024) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -