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Varriale, Simone (2016) Beyond distinction : theorising cultural evaluation as a social encounter. Cultural Sociology, 10 (2). pp. 160-177. doi:10.1177/1749975515596447
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975515596447
Abstract
This article expands recent attempts to theorise the role of culture’s materiality in Pierre Bourdieu’s relational epistemology. Drawing on empirical research about the reception of rock and jazz in Italy, and focusing on Italian critics’ evaluative practices, the article theorises cultural evaluation as a social encounter between social actors’ dispositions (i.e. their habitus) and cultural objects’ aural, visual and narrative properties. The article argues that such encounters produce relational aesthetic experiences, which are neither a property of social actors (e.g. their class) nor of cultural artifacts, but emerge from interactions between the habitus’ socio-historical specificity and different cultural materials. This theoretical synthesis, it is argued, can account for meanings and affects which, albeit co-produced by embodied dispositions, are neither reducible to such dispositions nor to practices of distinction. Further, it can account for the formative power of aesthetic experiences, i.e. the extent to which they create durable dispositions and attachments.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races M Music and Books on Music > M Music N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Culture, Popular music -- Philosophy and aesthetics | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cultural Sociology | ||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1749-9755 | ||||||
| Official Date: | June 2016 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 10 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Number of Pages: | 18 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 160-177 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/1749975515596447 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Funder: | University of Warwick Postgraduate Research Scholarship, University of Warwick. Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) |
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