Michael Mayerfeld Bell: The Strange Music of Social Life

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>How the music of human interaction can help us better understand the nature of social science research<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439907238&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="2157_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>The Strange Music of Social Life</h1> <H2>A Dialogue on Dialogic Sociology</H2> <H2>With Andrew Abbott, Judith Blau, Diana Crane, Stacy Holman Jones, Shamus Khan, Vanina Leschziner, John Levi Martin, Chris McRae, Marc W. Steinberg and John Chappell Stowe</H2> <h3>Michael Mayerfeld Bell, edited by Ann Goetting</h3> <P>cloth 1-4399-0723-4 $85.50, Jun 11, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>paper 1-4399-0724-2 $30.95, Jun 11, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 248 pp 5.5x8.25 </P><p><em>The Strange Music of Social Life</em> presents a dialogue on dialogic sociology, explored through the medium of music. Sociologist and composer Michael Mayerfeld Bell presents an argument that both sociology and classical music remain largely in the grip of a nineteenth-century totalizing ambition of prediction and control. He provides the refreshing approach of "strangency" to explain a sociology that tries to understand not only the regularities of social life but also the social conditions in which people do what we do not expect.</p> <p>Nine important sociologists and musicians respond-often vigorously-to the conversation Bell initiates by raising pivotal questions. <em>The Strange Music of Social Life</em> concludes with Bell's reply to those responses and offers new insight into sociology and music sociology.</p> <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p><b>Tuning Up</b> <br>Program Notes • Michael M. Bell with all the authors</p> <p><b>Theme</b> <br>1. Strange Music: Notes toward a Dialogic Sociology • Michael M. Bell</p> <p><b>Development</b> <br>2. Sociologizing the Strange: A Strong Program for a Weak Sociology • Vanina Leschziner <br>3. Stranger Danger: Response to Michael Bell’s “Strange Music” • John Levi Martin <br>4. A Sisyphean Process? Dialogue on Dialogical Sociology • Marc W. Steinberg <br>5. Growing a Chorus • Judith Blau <br>6. Why I Like Contemporary Classical Music and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Three Ironies of Michael Bell’s "Strange Music" • Shamus Khan <br>7. Response to Michael Bell: Reflections Based on Perspectives from Popular Culture, Fine Arts, and Globalization • Diana Crane <br>8. A Three Part Recension • Andrew Abbott <br>9. Strange to the Structure: A Dialogue on "Strange Music," Performance Studies, Jazz Trumpet, and Billie Holiday • Stacy Holman Jones and Chris McRae <br>10. Re-creating Music in the Moment: Reflections on Michael Bell’s "Strange Music" and on Musical Performance • John Chappell Stowe</p> <p><b>Coda</b> <br>11. If You Have All the Answers, You Don’t Have All the Questions • Michael M. Bell </p> <p>Contributors <br>Index</p> </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><strong>Michael Mayerfeld Bell</strong> is Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He is the author or editor of seven books, three of which have won national awards. He is also a composer of grassroots and classical music and is a mandolinist, guitarist, and singer.</P> <P> <strong>Ann Goetting</strong> is Professor of Sociology at Western Kentucky University. She is the author or editor of four previous books, including (with Sarah Fenstermaker) <em>Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology</em> and (with Gary Paul Green) <em>Mobilizing Communities: Asset Building as a Community Development Strategy</em> (both Temple).</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/sociology.html" TARGET="_top">Sociology</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/cultural.html" TARGET="_top">Cultural Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/music.html" TARGET="_top">Music and Dance</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439907238&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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