Musicology and mediation : an examination of the cultural materialisms of Raymond Williams and Pierre Bourdieu in relation to the fields of contemporary music and musicology, with a case study of Arvo Part and ECM

This thesis examines the usefulness of the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Raymond Williams for discussions of material mediation in musicology. In part I, I focus on Bourdieu's discussions of cultural production as set out in The Rules of Art and "The Field of Cultural Production", and r...

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Main Author: Begbie, Tom
Published: University of Plymouth 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508638