AuthorBerger, Harris M., 1966-
TitleMetal, rock, and jazz : perception and the phenomenology of musical experience / Harris M. Berger.
PublishedHanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1999.
Descriptionxiii, 334 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
SeriesMusic/culture
ISBN0-8195-6371-4 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN0-8195-6376-5 (pa : alk. paper)
General Note"Wesleyan University Press."
"A study of four music scenes in northeastern Ohio : the commercial hard rock scene of Cleveland, the death metal scene of Akron, the African American jazz scene of Cleveland's east side, and the European American jazz scene of Akron."
Bib. NoteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 315-323) and index.
Formatted NoteContents: An introduction ot central isues in ethnomusicology and folklore: phenomenology and practice theory -- I. The ethnography of musical practice. Commerical hard rock in Cleveland, Ohio: Dia Pason and Max Panic. Heavy metal in Akron, Ohio: Winter's Bane and Sin-Eater. Two jazz scenes in Northeast Ohio -- II. The organization of musical experience and the practice of perception. The organization of attention in two jazz scenes. The organization of attention in the rock and metal scenes. Tonality, temporality, and the intending subject (1): Chris Ozimek and "Turn for the Word". Tonality, temporality, and the perceptual subject (2): Dann Saladin and "The Final Silencing." Conclusions: perceptual practice and the social context -- III. Music, experience, and society: Death metal and deindustrialization in an American city. Death metal perspectives: affect, purpose, and the social life of music. A critical dialogue on the politics of the Metal Underground: race, class, and consequences -- Conclusion: the scope of thnomusicology.
SubjectsJazz -- Ohio -- Akron -- History and criticism.
Jazz -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History and criticism.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Social aspects.
Musical perception.
Rock music -- Ohio -- Akron -- History and criticism.
Rock music -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History and criticism.
LC Card Number98-43706
Call Number/Copies 
 WRHS Research Library: ML 3838 B496
mq221404: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING]
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