Higher, Faster, Louder: Representations of the International Music Competition  

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McCormick, Lisa

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Cultural Sociology vol. 3 no. 1 (Mar. 2009), page 5-30.
Topik: competition / culture / discourse analysis / gender / mass media / sociology of music / performance / sacred / narrative / sociology of art / critique of Bourdieu
Fulltext: 5.pdf (362.29KB)

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Competitions have been a visible and controversial part of the classical music world for over a century, yet sociologists have strangely neglected to study their social significance. This article explores the competition’s ongoing contest for legitimacy by considering the case of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Through a discourse analysis of publicity materials and media coverage, I reconstruct the symbolic frameworks that guide the construction of the event and the interpretation of competitors’ performances. I also trace the critical challenge to the idealized representations of the event, and decode the gender ideologies implied in commonly used metaphors. Demonstrating the centrality of meaning in musical production and reception, I aim to expose the limitations of the production perspective and Bourdieu’s model of the artistic field, offering in their place a new approach based on social performance.

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