Leisure and music types: Analysis of cultural legitimacy of sociology

Philosophy and Culture 37 (9):75-89 (2010)
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Systems of various types of music, it contains implicit or explicit, there are very system, which can be discussed as a social class system is a mirror: the poor are poor, the music, enjoy the rich people rich time, and between between the middle class is diverse, including Bourdieu the so-called "cultural good to the" . However, this image depicts is not entirely correct. Early post-modernism allegedly resulted in the cultural hierarchy left leaning a few years ago, what had been the case heard popular music, different types of people spending a lot of work . Futurist poet Marinetti in 1913 Declaration: "Down with Tango and fear Xifa Er" , When he is not against the antagonism between social classes, but rather refers to the elite culture the practice of different types of collection. On the sociology of leisure in terms of that type distinguish the better items than he's saying is unreasonable at all, even if both have their own influence and reputation is not the same. At least in Western society, we need to create a variety of different types of music to please the same people, or at least let the public have for entertainment pastime. And we also need a variety of different types of music, only afford the public understand the different feelings of pain and despair. Perhaps it was this, rather than any inherent technical reason, is that different types of music to the primacy of reason. So, therefore, was able to stand, unless the first look at a variety of music to all types of leisure activities to participation in a corner, or the type of music that's no discussion of the system. It has been argued that the system of musical genres, with all its implicit or explicit hierarchies, is a mirror of the system of social classes: the poor get poor music, the rich get the rich hours of humanity, and between the two stand the middle classes, indulging in what Pierre Bourdieu called the "cultural good will". Yet that picture is not fully accurate. Many years before postmodernism and the fading of cultural hierarchies that it supposedly brought, the situation was already to some extent that of a domination of the omnivorous kind, the people who consume different kinds of generic products . When in 1913 the Futurist poet Marinetti said "A bas le tango et Parsifal!", he was not pointing to a cultural opposition between social classes, but to a convergence of genres in the practices of the elite. And for a sociology of leisure, there is no reason to say that this or that side of the generic divide is more legitimate than the other, even if both do not have the same influence and prestige. In Western societies at least, we need different kinds of music to make the same people happy or, at least, to let them play the game of trying to be happy. We also need different types of music to make them live through the multiple experiences of sadness and despair. This, rather than some kind of inner, technical logic, is probably the reason why there are different kinds of music in the first place. And this is why it can be argued that the system of musical genres cannot be described without looking at the kind of leisure activities in which every one of them plays a part

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