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Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century

01 Sep 1999-Contemporary Sociology-Vol. 28, Iss: 5, pp 579
About: This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1999-09-01. It has received 81 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social movement.
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TL;DR: Theories of collective action have undergone a number of paradigm shifts, from "mass behavior" to "resource mobilization,” "political process, and new social movements" as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: ▪ Abstract Theories of collective action have undergone a number of paradigm shifts, from “mass behavior” to “resource mobilization,” “political process,” and “new social movements.” Debates have centered on the applicability of these frameworks in diverse settings, on the periodization of collective action, on the divisive or unifying impact of identity politics, and on the appropriateness of political engagement by researchers. Transnational activist networks are developing new protest repertoires that challenge anthropologists and other scholars to rethink conventional approaches to social movements.

425 citations

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TL;DR: A model of musical preferences based on listeners' affective reactions to excerpts of music from a wide variety of musical genres is introduced, suggesting that there exists a latent 5-factor structure underlying music preferences that is genre free and reflects primarily emotional/affective responses to music.
Abstract: Music is a cross-cultural universal, a ubiquitous activity found in every known human culture. Individuals demonstrate manifestly different preferences in music, and yet relatively little is known about the underlying structure of those preferences. Here, we introduce a model of musical preferences based on listeners' affective reactions to excerpts of music from a wide variety of musical genres. The findings from 3 independent studies converged to suggest that there exists a latent 5-factor structure underlying music preferences that is genre free and reflects primarily emotional/affective responses to music. We have interpreted and labeled these factors as (a) a Mellow factor comprising smooth and relaxing styles; (b) an Unpretentious factor comprising a variety of different styles of sincere and rootsy music such as is often found in country and singer-songwriter genres; (c) a Sophisticated factor that includes classical, operatic, world, and jazz; (d) an Intense factor defined by loud, forceful, and energetic music; and (e) a Contemporary factor defined largely by rhythmic and percussive music, such as is found in rap, funk, and acid jazz. The findings from a fourth study suggest that preferences for the MUSIC factors are affected by both the social and the auditory characteristics of the music.

276 citations

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TL;DR: A considerable body of research and scholarship is discussed that provides evidence for music's capacity to promote empathy and social/cultural understanding through powerful affective, cognitive and social factors, and ways in which to connect and make sense of this disparate evidence (and counter-evidence).

149 citations

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TL;DR: The transition from fast spontaneous urbanisation in southern Europe, with popular squatting as a form of civil disobedience, to new social movements (NSMs) for democratic globalisation in cities is discussed in this paper.
Abstract: The transition from fast spontaneous urbanisation in southern Europe, with popular squatting as a form of civil disobedience, to ‘new social movements’ (NSMs) for democratic globalisation in cities...

116 citations


Cites background from "Music and Social Movements: Mobiliz..."

  • ...We are rather interested in movements which reinvent and reproduce traditions of protest and rebellion, ‘alternative cultures’, which live in the collective memory and which may influence and affect the emergence of future social movements (Eyerman and Jamison, 1998, p. 162)....

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  • ...For them the world consists of causal connections between dependent and independent variables, not the struggles of real human beings meaningfully engaged in constructing their world in conflict and co-operation with others (Eyerman and Jamison, 1998, p. 162)....

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TL;DR: In this paper, the analysis of ethnographic and documentary data is used to explain how U.S. white power movement (WPM) activists use music to produce collective occasions and experiences.
Abstract: Relying on the analysis of ethnographic and documentary data, this article explains how U.S. White Power Movement (WPM) activists use music to produce collective occasions and experiences that we c...

111 citations