Musiksoziologie

Music sociology studies music as a social fact. How do social processes and structures permeate music and musical behaviour, how does music affect the social? This introduction provides an up-to-date overview of the most important topics in modern music sociology. It looks at a wide variety of musical forms in the past and present and in different cultural areas. It focuses on value judgements, identity, mediality, social space, economics and the challenges facing the discipline in postmodern society.
Karsten Mackensen works in the field of music sociology and the social history of music. Claudia Bullerjahn conducts empirical research on various contemporary music cultures.