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Authors: Harris M. Berger
ISBN-13: 9780819568786, ISBN-10: 0819568783
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Date Published: February 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Harris M. Berger

HARRIS M. BERGER is associate professor of music and performance studies at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Metal, Rock, and Jazz (1999) and coauthor of Identity and Everyday Life (2004). He has served as the president of the U.S. branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and is the coeditor of the Journal of American Folklore.

Book Synopsis

How we find and make meaning through music and performance

Table of Contents

Preface: What Phenomenology Can Do for the Study of Expressive Culture

1 Locating Stance 1

2 Structures of Stance in Lived Experience 27

3 Stance and Others, Stance and Lives 54

4 The Social Life of Stance and the Politics of Expressive Culture 97

Notes 137

Works Cited 153

Index 159

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