| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76557 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree. | en_US |
| dc.format | Monograph | |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic Resource | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dc.type | Dissertation | |
| dcterms.abstract | Milton Babbitt's 1958 article " The Composer as Specialist" (in)famously aligned the scientific aspirations of avant-garde art music with the university's mission of disinterested research. More recently, musicologists have criticized the alleged resultant hermitage of modernist styles within academia by asserting universities' separation from " public" musical culture. However, the growth of the American university in terms of population and social power since the mid-twentieth century has enlarged rather than mitigated the institution's societal influence. While universities have traditionally been associated with art music rather than popular music scenes, changes in demography, curricula, and student life over the past half-century have connected university culture with non-mainstream popular musics. This dissertation examines the influence of American universities in the creation of elite forms of traditional and rock music. I use the term " elite popular music" to describe popular music genres that, through aesthetic criticism and social privilege, have been intellectually differentiated and culturally elevated from other popular musics instead associated with mass culture. I show how campus musicians and audiences found the university to house the appropriate intellectual tools to cultivate their ideas about how to critically discuss, create, and listen to popular music. In particular, the primary means of cultivating elite popular music derived from liberal arts education, especially cultural criticism and the ethics of self-development, or Bildung. This dissertation covers four case studies that discuss popular musics on American campuses as extensions and applications of liberal arts culture: 1960s folk music at the University of Illinois and Indiana University; 1970s ethnomusicology of Native American music at UCLA and Wesleyan; 1980s college rock at the University of Georgia; and 2000s indie rock at Yale and Columbia. By examining discourses and performances through the dispositions, privileges, and geographies of the American university, this dissertation demonstrates how the intellectual and cultural politics of elite popular music reflect the central ethics and tensions of liberal arts education: between universality and privilege, commercial and critical success, and individual development and social acquiescence. | |
| dcterms.available | 2017-09-20T16:50:38Z | |
| dcterms.contributor | Winkler, Peter K | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Lochhead, Judith | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Smith, Stephen | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Fink, Robert. | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | Blake, David | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-09-20T16:50:38Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2017-09-20T16:50:38Z | |
| dcterms.description | Department of Music. | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | 296 pg. | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Monograph | |
| dcterms.format | Application/PDF | en_US |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76557 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2015-08-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en_US | |
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Previous issue date: 2014 | en |
| dcterms.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dcterms.subject | alternative rock, American university, folk music, Music history, Native American music, popular music | |
| dcterms.subject | Music | |
| dcterms.title | Bildung Culture: Elite Popular Music and the American University, 1960-2010 | |
| dcterms.type | Dissertation | |
