On Counter-Enlightenment, Existential Irony, and Sanctification

This book introduces the topics of Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and social demography in Western art musics and demonstrates their historical and sociological importance. The essays in this book explore the concepts of "existential irony" and "sanctification," which have been mentioned or discussed by music scholars, historians, and musicologists only either in connection with specific composers' works (Shostakovich's, in the case of "existential irony") or very parenthetically, merely in passing in the biographies of composers of "classical" musics. This groundbreaking work illustrates their generality and sociological sources and correlates in contemporary Western art musics.

Auteur

Judah Matras is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at Carleton University, Ottawa, and at the University of Haifa. He holds degrees in Statistics (B.Sc.) and in Sociology (M.A. and Ph.D.) from the University of Chicago, and has had Visiting Professor appointments at the University of Chicago; the University of Wisconsin, Madison; the University of Washington, Seattle; the Max Planck-Institute fur Bildungsforschung, Berlin; Harvard University; and Nuffield College, Oxford. Most of his research and publications were devoted to social inequality. stratification, and population studies, but in most recent teaching years he taught courses and seminars in the Sociology of Musics and has presented and published a number of research papers in this field.

Contenu

Table of Contents Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. On Horizons and Research Agendas for the Sociology of Musics: Changes under the Pandemic and Social Distancing

2. On "Ethno-Existential Irony" in Western Art Musics

3. Counter-Enlightenment, the Other, and Existential Irony

4. On Migration and the Social Demography of Western Art Musics

5. On the Sociology of Musics and Counter-Enlightenment in Israel

6. On Modern Jewish Atlantic Rim and Black Atlantic Migrations

7. On the Sanctification of Western Art Musics

8. Sociological Perspectives on the Sanctification of Secular Musics

References

Index