Intro to Sociology of Music

Pre-requisites: Elementary insights in the history of Western music (classical and popular). If the number of applicants for this course is too high, sociology students and students with a high grade point average will be given precedence.

Course objectives: The main objective of this course is to enable better comprehesion of the relationship between music and contemporary society – especially in Serbia.

Course description: This course introduces students to the basic problems and issues of the sociology of music and presents itself as a foundation for understanding more complex social issues related to the production, performance, spreading and listening to music.

Learning Outcomes: Upon completing this course, students should be capable of understanding music as a social phenomenon.

Literature/Reading:

• Carl Dahlhaus: “Muzičko umetničko delo kao predmet sociologije”, Zvuk, br. 2/1974, str. 19–28.
• Alfred Šic: “O višestrukim stvarnostima”, u Spasić, Ivana (ur.): Interpretativna sociologija, Beograd: Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva.
• Dragana Jeremić-Molnar i Aleksandar Molnar: Nestajanje uzvišenog i ovladavanje avangardnog u muzici moderne epohe, Beograd: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju i Filip Višnj
• Dragana Jeremić-Molnar i Aleksandar Molnar: Nestajanje uzvišenog i ovladavanje avangardnog u muzici moderne epohe, Beograd: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju i Filip Višnj
• Teodor Adorno: “O fetišu u muzici i regresiji slušanja”, u: Đorđević, Mira (ur.): Aspekti radija, Sarajevo: Svjetlost 1978, str. 114–148.
• Carl Dahlhaus: Glazba 19. stoljeća, Zagreb: Hrvatsko muzikološko društvo 2007, str. 107–114;
• Dragana Jeremić-Molnar: Rihard Vagner: Konstruktor ‘istinske’ realnosti, Beograd: Fabrika knjiga 2007, str. 48–62 i 161–179
• Erik Gordi: Kultura vlasti u Srbiji. Nacionalizam i razaranje alternativa, Beograd, B92, 2001, str. 115–137
• Erik Gordi: Kultura vlasti u Srbiji. Nacionalizam i razaranje alternativa, Beograd, B92, 2001, str. 137–175