Music Lovers: Taste as performance - Mines Paris Accéder directement au contenu
Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2010

Music Lovers: Taste as performance

Antoine Hennion

Résumé

This article presents the implications, objectives and initial results of a current ethnographic research project on music lovers. It looks at problems of theory and method posed by such research if it is not conceived only as the explanation of external determinisms, relating taste to the social origins of the amateur or to the aesthetic properties of the works. Our aim is, on the contrary, from long interviews and observations undertaken with music lovers, mostly in the classical field, to concentrate on gestures, objects, mediums, devices and relations engaged in a form of playing or listening, which amounts to more than the actualization of a taste `already there', for they are redefined during the action, with a result that is partly uncertain. This is why amateurs' attachments and ways of doing things can both engage and form subjectivities, rather than merely recording social labels, and have a history, irreducible to that of the taste for works.

Domaines

Sociologie
Fichier non déposé

Dates et versions

hal-00520114 , version 1 (22-09-2010)

Identifiants

  • HAL Id : hal-00520114 , version 1

Citer

Antoine Hennion. Music Lovers: Taste as performance. Alan Warde. Consumption, vol. 3 "Appropriation", Sage Publications, pp.187-208, 2010. ⟨hal-00520114⟩
80 Consultations
0 Téléchargements

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More