MINI-CONFERENCE ON THE

SOCIOLOGY OF MUSIC

August 20, 2003
Joseph W. Jones Room, 311 Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

COFFEE AND CONVERSATION, 9:00 - 9:25

OPENING REMARKS, 9:25 - 9:30

FIRST ROUND OF PAPER PRESENTATIONS, 9:30 - 11:00

Table 1 Musical Tastes and Preferences
 

Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University, and Timothy J. Dowd, Emory University
 "The Decline of Cultural Hierarchy? Social Bases of Aesthetic Eclecticism"

Joseph A. Kotarba, University of Houston
"Popular Music Experiences in Middle Age"

John Sonnett, University of Arizona
"Intersecting Musical Boundaries: Diversity in Form and Content"
Table 2 The Framing and Classifying of Music
 

Brady Potts, University of Wisconsin - Madison
 "Signifying and Classifying: Framing the Blues"

Paul Lopes, Mount Holyoke College
"Signifying Deviance and Transgression: Jazz in Popular Fiction"

Darby E. Southgate, The Ohio State University
"Music Boxes: Categorization and Commodification"

Table 3 Music and Place
 

Robert Gardner, University of Colorado - Boulder
 "Performing Place: Music and Memory in the New American West"

Matt Miller, Emory University
 "Old South, New South, Dirty South: Rap Music and Southern Identity"

Bill Tsitsos, University of Arizona
"'Matter Out of Place': The Emergence of Rap and Techno Music"
Table 4 The Interplay between Music and Technology
 

Andrew D. A. Bozanic, Georgia Institute of Technology
 "The Larceny of Listening: The Effects of the Digital Music Technology Revolution on the College Population of Atlanta"

Randal Doane, Oberlin College & Case Western Reserve University
 "The Resonance of Zeros and Ones: Notes on Music File-Sharing"

Jan Marontate, Acadia University
 "Digital Recording and the Reconfiguration of Music as Performance”
Table 5 The Social Situation of Performers
 

William F. Danaher, College of Charleston
"Gender Power: Lyrics and Industry Influence of African American Classic Blues Singers, 1921-1929"

Matthew Irvin, North Carolina State University
"The Rise of Corporate Radio in Unremarkable Media Markets: Diminished Airtime Opportunities for Non-National Artists?"

Erin M. Trapp, University of Colorado
"The Push and Pull of Hip-Hop: A Social Movement Analysis"

PANEL: AUTHORS AND THEIR FORTHCOMING BOOKS, 11:15 - 12:15

 

Andy Bennett, University of Surrey, and Richard A. Peterson, Vanderbilt University
Music Scenes: Local, Trans-Local and Virtual; Vanderbilt University Press

Tia DeNora, University of Exeter
After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology; Cambridge University Press

Vincent J. Roscigno, The Ohio State University, and William F. Danaher, College of Charleston
The Voice of Southern Labor: Radio, Music, and Textile Strikes, 1929-1934; University of Minnesota Press

LUNCH, 12:30 - 1:30

SECOND ROUND OF PAPER PRESENTATIONS, 1:45 - 3:15

Table 1 The Critical Reception of Music
 

Scott Appelrouth, California State University - Northridge
 "Body and Soul: Jazz in the 1920s"

James G. Ennis, Tufts University
"Accounting for Taste: Social Structure in the Field of Critical Evaluation of Popular Music"

Mary Ann Glynn, Emory University & University of Michigan, and Michael Lounsbury, Cornell University
"From the Critics' Corner: Logic Blending and Discursive Change in a Cultural Production System"
Table 2 The Ongoing Construction of Music Markets
 

Damon Phillips, University of Chicago and David A. Owens, Vanderbilt University
 "The Commercialization of Innovative Cultural Products: The Emergence of Recorded Jazz, 1920 to 1929"

William G. Roy, University of California, Los Angeles
“‘Race Records’ and ‘Hillbilly Music’: The Institutional Origins of Racial Categories in the American Commercial Recording Industry”

Katherine Skinner, Emory University
“'The Safety of This Journey Depends on Unity': The Emergence of the Field of Women's Music"
Table 3 The Embeddedness of Musical Content
 

Timothy J. Dowd, Kathleen Liddle, and Maureen Blyler, Emory University
 "Charting Gender: The Success of Female Acts in the U.S. Mainstream Recording Market, 1940-1990"

Jennifer C. Lena, Columbia University
“Sonic Networks: Economic, Stylistic and Expressive Dimensions of Rap Music, 1979-1995”

Jean Van Delinder, Oklahoma State University
"'Le style frigidaire': Managerial Control Strategies and Discourses of Embodiment in Taylorism, Balanchine and the Ballet Music of Igor Stravinsky"
Table 4 Musical Community and Identity
 

Rebecca G. Adams, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
 "Deadheads: Community, Spirituality, and Friendship"

Laura Clawson, Princeton University
 "'When We Arrive at Home': Community and Spirituality among Sacred Harp Singers"

Christopher J. Pappas, University of Minnesota
 "Backpackers and B-Boys: History and Identity in Hip Hop"
Table 5 Music in Action: Games and Scenes
 

David Grazian, University of Pennsylvania
"The Production of Popular Music as a Confidence Game: The Case of the Chicago Blues"

Emilie Hardman, Brandeis University
“'Am I Emo?' The Use of Music in Mainstream Marketing of Subculture"

Kevin McElmurry, University of Missouri – Columbia
"Moving Through a Local Music Scene"

DISCUSSION GROUPS, 3:30 - 4:25

Table 1

Conversing with Panel Authors on Their Forthcoming Books (Mary Ann Glynn, facilitator)
Table 2

Teaching the Sociology of Music (Joseph A. Kotarba, facilitator)

Table 3

Identifying the Dominant Approaches in the Sociology of Music (William G. Roy, facilitator)

Table 4

Managing the Interdisciplinary Nature of the Sociology of Music (Paul Lopes, facilitator)
Table 5

Raising the Profile of the Sociology of Music in the Discipline (David Grazian, facilitator)

CLOSING REMARKS, 4:25 - 4:30

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