The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music

Chapter 1 - Introduction.- Part 1: Setting new agendas in the cultural sociology of the arts.- Chapter 2 - The Three Generations of the French Sociology of Art.- Chapter 3 - Artistic Residencies as Creative Ecologies: Proposing a New Framework for 21st-Century Cultural Production.- Chapter 4 - Theory of an Art Market Scandal: Artistic Integrity and Financial Speculation in the Inigo Philbrick Case.- Part 2: What art and music mean: Aesthetics and evaluation.- Chapter 5 - Constructing Difference and Diversity: Culture, Meaning, and the Social Aesthetics of American Art Music.- Chapter 6 Locating Meaning in Contemporary Art: How Artists Conceptualize the Aesthetic Experience.- Chapter 7 Moving through Aesthetic Space: Visual Artists and Migration.- Chapter 8 Mapping Multivocality: How Critics Communicate Complex Meanings through Metaphor.- Part 3: Where art and music happen: Materiality and performance.- Chapter 9 - Looking Beyond Interaction: Exploring Meaning Making through the Windows of an Art Gallery.- Chapter 10 - Framing Performance and Fusion: How Music Venues' Materiality and Intermediaries Shape Music Scenes.- Chapter 11 - Saron Consato, Artistic Identity and European Classical Music in Japan.- Part 4: Raising the stakes through the arts: Contestation and controversy.- Chapter 12 - Owning the Hate: A Case Study of Moral Entrepreneurship in Contemporary Rock Music and the Trademarking of Racial Slurs.- Chapter 13-  The Music of the Dying Class: Jazz as the Impure Sacred in Stalinist Czechoslovakia.- Chapter 14 - Drawing the Line: Evaluation, Boundary work, and Boundary Objects in a New Discipline.- Chapter 15 - Music and Democracy in America: Historical Perspectives on 'Democratization' in the Digital Age.

Lisa McCormick is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She was co-editor of the journal Cultural Sociology from 2016 to 2020.