Pop-Rock Music as Expressive Isomorphism: Blurring the National, the Exotic, and the Cosmopolitan in Popular Music
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Expressive isomorphism is characterized as the process through which national uniqueness is standardized so that expressive culture of various nations, or of social sectors within them, comes to consist of similar expressive forms and stylistic elements. Expanding on Meyer, the presence of pop-rock music in world culture is discussed as a major manifestation of expressive isomorphism. This is done by looking at these aspects of pop-rock music: electric instrumentation, ritual classification, ritual periodization, diffusion of styles and genres, legitimation discourses, and the emergence of ethnic rock. Following Bourdieu, a sociological account that focuses on recognition and status concludes the article.
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The concerns of the sociology of music are themselves developing at a rapid pace to catch up with developments in copyright law, digital technologies, globalisation and wholesale changes to the music industry.
“Meanwhile, the concerns of the sociology of music are themselves developing at a rapid pace to catch up with developments in copyright law, digital technologies, globalisation and wholesale changes to the music industry (Regev 2011).”
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- Authors
- Regev, M.
- Affiliations
- Open University of Israel (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Regev, Motti
- ORCID
- Regev, Motti
- Venue
- American Behavioral Scientist
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2011-03-15
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 558-573
- ISSN
- 0002-7642 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3381
- OpenAlex
- W2072093786
- Cited by
- 42
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 177.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Behavioral Scientist (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Music › Music History and Culture
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Music › Musicology and Musical Analysis
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Globalization and Cultural Identity
- Keywords
- pop-rock music, national identity, exoticism, cosmopolitanism, legitimation discourse, Pierre Bourdieu, cultural homogenization
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