Myth, meaning, and performance : toward a new cultural sociology of the arts / spine title : Myth, meaning, and performance. edited by Ron Eyerman and Lisa McCormick. - v, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - The Yale cultural sociology series. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154) and index.

Toward a meaningful sociology of the arts / Ron Eyerman -- Chewing on Clement Greenberg : abstraction and the two faces of modernism / Robert W. Witkin -- The meaning of style : postmodernism, demystification, and dissonance in post-Tiananmen Chinese avant-garde art / Julia Chi Zhang -- Seeker of the sacred : a late-Durkheimian theory of the artist / Steve Sherwood -- Music as agency in Beethoven's Vienna / Tia DeNora -- Music as social performance / Lisa McCormick.

9781594512148 RM847.54


Arts and society.