Essays about: "music sociology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words music sociology.

  1. 1. The Sounds of Our World: Navigating Live Music and Artist Growth in Harare

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Annika Medin; [2023]
    Keywords : live music; zimbabwe; harare; urban sociology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Increasingly connected to urban development and vitality in modern discourses of urban sociology, live music is a social and cultural phenomenon with great potential for improving people’s, including artists, well-being. Still, the systems and networks which shape live music are specific to their local social, cultural and institutional contexts, leading to a range of perceptions. READ MORE

  3. 2. Unboxing The Algorithm : Understandability And Algorithmic Experience In Intelligent Music Recommendation Systems

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Anna Marie Schröder; [2021]
    Keywords : algorithmic experience; music recommendation systems; transparency; interaction design; machine learning; music streaming;

    Abstract : After decades of black-boxing the existence of algorithms in technologies of daily need, users lack confidence in handling them. This thesis study investigates the use situation of intelligent music recommendation systems and explores how understandability as a principle drawn from sociology, design, and computing can enhance the algorithmic experience. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Hell Harp of Hieronymus Bosch. The building of an experimental musical instrument, and a critical account of an experience of a community of musicians.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

    Author : Johannes Bergmark; [2019-10-08]
    Keywords : Experimental musical instruments; improvised music; Hieronymus Bosch; musical performance art; music sociology; surrealism;

    Abstract : Taking a detail from Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden Of Earthly Delights as a point of departure, an instrument is built for a musical performance act deeply involving the body of the musician. The process from idea to performance is recorded and described as a compositional and improvisational process. READ MORE

  5. 4. Rights Claims Through Music - A Study on Collective Identity and Social Movements

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Dzeneta Sadikovic; [2019]
    Keywords : music; politics; human rights; freedom of speech; oppression; discrimination; racism; culture; protest; social movements; sociology; musicology; slavery; civil rights; african americans; collective identity;

    Abstract : This study is an analysis of musical lyrics which express oppression and discrimination of the African American community and encourage potential action for individuals to make a claim on their rights. This analysis will be done methodologically as a content analysis. READ MORE

  6. 5. Defining Nostalgia and Its Functions: A Review

    University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation och information

    Author : Jimmy Andersson; [2011]
    Keywords : Homesickness; Melancholia; Depression; Emotional memory; Olfactory; Positive emotions; Triggers;

    Abstract : Nostalgia is a psychological phenomenon we all can relate to but have a hard time to define. What characterizes the mental state of feeling nostalgia? What psychological function does it serve? Different published materials in a wide range of fields, from consumption research and sport science to clinical psychology, psychoanalysis and sociology, all have slightly different definition of this mental experience. READ MORE