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Beyond distinction : theorising cultural evaluation as a social encounter

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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 ISSN 1749-9755.

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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
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
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
Dates:
DateEvent
14 August 2015Available
June 2016Published
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
Date of first compliant deposit: 18 May 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access: 14 August 2016
Funder: University of Warwick Postgraduate Research Scholarship, University of Warwick. Institute of Advanced Study (IAS)

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