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Tag Archives: genre
Genres Revisited
About a year ago, I wrote a post on this blog exploring the meanings and nuances embedded within musical genres and categorizations. After discussing examples of variations and debates concerning different types of music and the meanings people attach to … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Discussion, Music, music sssi, Record Stores, Research
Tagged blog, genre, music, pop, research, sociology
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Music, Communities, and Connections
In this guest post, Xan Nowakowski reflects on connections and communities fostered by live music, and the ways such experiences may impact us individually and bind us to others in predictable and unexpected ways. Recently I’ve spent a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, concerts, Event, Guest Post, Interactionism, Music, music sssi, Xan Nowakowski
Tagged blog, concerts, genre, music
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Listing Subjectivity
One of my hobbies involves following, reading, and thinking about various writing about music in magazines, newspapers, and other publication records. As anyone else who does this – even once upon a time or only occasionally – likely knows, a … Continue reading
1989
Just over two weeks ago, Ryan Adams released his cover version of Taylor Swift’s 1989 record. As I noted on this blog prior to the release, I was delighted by even the idea of this project and spent quite a … Continue reading
Posted in #sssi, Blog, Discussion, Emotion, Interactionism, Journal, Music, music sssi, Reflection
Tagged art emotions interactionism music pain, blog, culture, genre, interactionism, music, pop
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What makes a classic?
The Title of this post is a question I have been wrestling with for a while now. As noted in a previous post, I often use music in my classes to illustrate points, demonstrate the transmission of ideas and practices … Continue reading
The Difference a Plug Makes
While I was in Chicago recently, I purchased a used copy of REM’s recently released MTV Unplugged concerts on compact disc. As has always been my experience with REM, I did not really know what to expect at the time … Continue reading
Covered in Meaning
Earlier this week, news broke that Ryan Adams will be covering the entirety of Taylor Swift’s latest record – 1989. Amidst the joyful, shocked, and unhappy reactions I read all over the Internet in the days following, I began to … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Discussion, Interactionism, Music, music sssi
Tagged blog, culture, genre, interactionism, music, open mic, Playlists
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Counting Selves via Crows
Last week on Write Where It Hurts, I wrote about some of my experiences managing chronic health conditions in the academy. At the same time on this blog, I talked about an experience at a coffee shop with a stranger … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Discussion, Music, music sssi, Reflection
Tagged blog, concerts, Counting Crows, culture, dramaturgy, genre, Identity Work, interactionism, music, Playlists
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Dramaturgical Guitars
Having both begun playing guitar about this time last year, in this post Xan Nowakowski and J. Sumerau collaboratively reflect on some ways people interpret and use guitars in ways that signify meaning about themselves, music, and the wider social world. … Continue reading
Posted in Discussion, Dramaturgy, Guest Post, Music, music sssi, Reflection
Tagged Alice Cooper, concerts, culture, dramaturgy, genre, Identity Work, interactionism, music
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Investigating Musical Aesthetics
Earlier this week, I spent some time reading an interesting new article (available now on early view) about the aesthetics of everyday life in relation to beauty, art, and fashion. As I read about the various ways the respondents interpreted … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Discussion, Interactionism, Music, music sssi, Research
Tagged blog, culture, genre, interactionism, music
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Didn’t We Meet: The Many Masks of Alice Cooper
Dr. Xan Nowakowski is research faculty at the Florida State University College of Medicine, and adjunct faculty in Sociology. Their research and teaching focus on the experience and management of chronic health conditions, their causes, and their consequences. In this … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Discussion, Dramaturgy, Guest Post, Interactionism, Music, music sssi, Pain, Reflection, Xan Nowakowski
Tagged Alice Cooper, blog, dramaturgy, genre, Identity Work, interactionism, music, sociology
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Interpreting Record Store Content and Experience
As I noted in my first blog post, one of my favorite things to do is roam around and dig through the shelves and bins of record stores. In this regard, I am quite lucky to have many such places … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Discussion, Music, music sssi, Record Stores
Tagged blog, culture, Ethnography, genre, interactionism, music, Record Stores
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What’s in a genre?
When I was a child, I had a friend who took every opportunity to tell anyone who would listen that Cat Stevens was the greatest country singer of all time. Although I disagreed with this assertion (my vote went to … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Discussion, Interactionism, Music, music sssi, symbolic interaction
Tagged blog, genre, interactionism, music
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