Description:
This handbook defines the sociological analysis of art and culture, focusing on the visual arts, literature, music and digital culture. Leading international scholars consider the restructuring of highbrow and popular culture; aesthetic preferences; ethnicity, migration and cosmopolitanism; and the rise of screen culture using state-of-the-art methods and theoretical innovations.
Review Quotes:
The study of Art and Culture has been among the fastest growing fields of Sociology in recent years, and this Handbook both provides a timely and valuable overview and a serious intellectual engagement that will be of value to students and researchers alike. - Craig Calhoun, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
"The editors of this book, who have organized its 30 chapters into three sections, have three aims: defend Bourdieu's approach to cultural sociology; elaborate on a "relational" analysis of the sociology of art and culture; and emphasize that there are both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research on the culture of art...It is difficult to see any continuing argument or "flow of thought" emerging out of these diverse papers; at the same time, this is a strength of the book, in that readers are confronted with debate and hidden disagreements. Much of the book is words about words, which should be useful to students and researchers who work in the essayist style of the authors." - D. Harper, University of Rochester, CHOICE