Tia Denora
Biographic Data
| ID | 160406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tia Denora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tia |
| FAMILY NAME | Denora |
| SIGNATURE | DENORA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3334-8639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 248 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Exploring ecologies of musicking and pain in scenes of palliative care: Case studies with Kantele
Though the experience of pain is real, pain can be framed, diminished and enhanced by many things that lie outside the body. Those things not only extend (and transform) the experience of pain; they also call attention to embodiment as an emergent and extended phenomenon. Focusing on how embodiment and pain perception emerge as extended phenomena thus highlights pain’s redress in ways that also extend current conceptions of ‘medicine’ to include …
Opening up openings: Zooming in on improvisation in the Theater of Home
This article presents a qualitative analysis of the opening section of an online improvisation session. The session, which was organized by the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, included an international group of musicians. It took place during the global COVID-19 pandemic where the participants were experiencing lockdown conditions. Phenomenological reflexive analysis and video elicitation techniques were utilized to develop a number of key themes …
Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803
Music and Erotic Agency – Sonic Resources and Social-Sexual Action
Comment l’être et le corps se nouent-ils dans une configuration culturelle ? Comment les produits culturels sont-ils mobilisés, et comment les textes, les images, les structures et les représentations sonores « entrent-elles en action » ? Ce sont là des questions fondamentales pour les études culturelles, la sociologie et la psychologie sociale. Pourtant elles n’ont guère été abordées de front jusqu’ici, et elles ne sauraient faire l’objet d’une …
Reflecting on Music and Erotic Agency: Sonic Resources and Socio-sexual action (Body & Society 1997)
This was a piece I published the year I began the research for Music in Everyday Life I was a much younger scholar (and woman), it was a particular "moment" circa 1995, and I was teaching a final year course on gendered bodies. I thought the Goffmanian perspective applied to sexual conduct would be good to think with -if you wanted to think about the nexus of culture and biology. But I also thought that Goffman did not take us
Music therapy research during a pandemic: An accidental experiment in caring for music
This article describes how a group of music therapists and a music sociologist working on the AHRC-funded research project Care for Music responded to the situation they found themselves during the 2020–21 COVID pandemic, both in terms of their practice and the ongoing research project they shared. In particular, the article outlines how the challenging situation has produced interesting new practical, methodological and theoretical perspectives …
Fractured bonds and crystal capital: Social capital among Covid-era music communities
As COVID-19-driven lockdowns and social distancing became the new normal in 2020, musicians experienced a reshuffling of their social networks. This article uses in-depth interviews with nine community arts practitioners in Australia, Norway and the United States to explore the impact of COVID-19 on their ability to practise, collaborate and connect with their musical communities. Results showed that, while social distancing has significantly dis…
Can Music Fight Disease? Can Cultural Sociology Help? Norwegian Vistas
Deconstructing Periodization: Sociological Methods and Historical Ethnography in Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna
This chapter offers an intentionally polemical attempt to rethink or deconstruct the notion of periodization as applied to Beethoven, to look critically at periodization as a way of accounting for Beethoven&s;s artistic development. Beethoven&s;s music was perceived by its late eighteenth-century audiences as falling outside conventional boundaries of musical value. Interpreted from a sociological perspective, biographical material about Beethove…
Mental Health
Since Durkheim, mental health has been understood to be a socially systemic and socially produced phenomenon. Sociological investigations on the topic consider cultural classification, medicalization, interpersonal dynamics, and cultural engagement.
Music-in-Action: Selected Essays in Sonic Ecology
This volume brings together DeNora‘s work published between 1986 and 2007. It includes thirteen essays, some of which have had a major impact on the field. The chapters trace the development of her work from its early concern with musical meaning, historical ethnography and theeveryday perspective, to its current focus on music in action. Topics covered include Adorno on Schoenberg and Stravinsky, a theory of music as a space and place for interp…
Rethinking the field of memory studies: A reply
Music in action: Tinkering, Testing and Tracing Over Time
In this article we draw on a recent, six-year ethnographic study of community music therapy and mental health to highlight strategies and techniques for documenting music's role in processes of change. We place these strategies in dialogue with the ethnographic work on arts and crafts by Paul Atkinson. In tandem with Atkinson, we propose a 'slow' approach focused on micro-processes of musical/para-musical bricolage whereby things are made and tra…
Music, empathy and cultural understanding
Making Sense of Reality: Culture and Perception in Everyday Life
This book suggests that the realities we take as 'real' are the result of real-time, situated practices that draw on and draw together many things - technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media. Examining these practices illuminates reality (or rather our sense of it) as always, 'virtually real', that is simplified and artfully produced. This examination also shows us how the sense of reality that we make is nonetheless real in …
Musicians Make Markets
Arts markets are not ‘neutral’. Rather, they are inevitably coloured by socio-cultural practices and regularities, some of which are embedded in and afforded by aesthetic forms and the values and images associated with these forms. The stabilisation of distribution and consumption patterns over time may thus be linked to, and structured by, often tacitly delineated meanings, values and practices associated with artistic products (musical works an…
Resounding the great divide: Theorising music in everyday life at the end of life
Music in contexts of death and dying is an important but often-overlooked aspect of music in everyday life. In this article I develop an ecological perspective for end of life experience that takes account of the temporal-cultural complexity of being gravely ill and, by implication, being well. This perspective views wellness and illness as inextricably linked and relationally determined. To develop these ideas I use auto-ethnographic examples fr…
Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States
Music-In-Action: Selected Essays in Sonic Ecology
Contents: Introduction Bibliography Structure, chaos and emancipation: Adorno's philosophy of modern music and post-war avant garde How is extra-musical meaning possible? Music as a place and space for 'work' Deconstructing periodization: sociological methods and historical ethnography in late 18th-century Vienna The musical composition of social reality? Music, action and reflexivity The biology lessons of opera buffa: gender, nature, and bourge…
Culture and the Arts: From Art Worlds to Arts-in-Action
Through its embrace of the "cultural turn" and the "practice turn" in cultural sociology, recent work in the subfield of arts sociology has helped to advance our understanding of the role of culture in social life through its focus on arts-in-action. Empirically, this focus grew out of earlier work in the production and consumption of the arts, while, theoretically, it resonates with traditions within ethnomethodology, cognitive sociology, and th…
Consumption of Music
Music consumption has been a central topic in music sociology over the past three decades. Pursued through quantitative (Bourdieu 1984) and qualitative (DiMaggio 1982) methods, classic work in the area has highlighted music's role as a medium of status distinction. In more recent years, the links between taste and status have been shown to be, in the American context at least, more complex, the highbrow/lowbrow divide modulating into an omnivore–…
The Pebble in the Pond: Musicing, Therapy, Community
Music Listening and Empowerment in Health Promotion: A Study of the Role and Significance of Music in Everyday Life of the Long-term Ill
This study considers music listening and its role as a lay or folk healing practice in the lives of men and women with long-term illnesses and diseases. Twenty–two participants aged 34 to 65 with long–term illnesses and diseases from Oslo and Akershus in Norway, were recruited as a strategic sample involving eight in–depth interviews stretching over a yearfrom 2004 to 2005. The research, participatory and action–oriented, focused on whether parti…
Historical perspectives in music sociology
After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology
Theodor W. Adorno placed music at the centre of his critique of modernity and broached some of the most important questions about the role of music in contemporary society. One of his central arguments was that music, through the manner of its composition, affected consciousness and was a means of social management and control. His work was primarily theoretical however, and because these issues were never explored empirically his work has become…
Music as a technology of the self
Culture and the Arts: From Art Worlds to Arts-in-Action
Through its embrace of the "cultural turn" and the "practice turn" in cultural sociology, recent work in the subfield of arts sociology has helped to advance our understanding of the role of culture in social life through its focus on arts-in-action. Empirically, this focus grew out of earlier work in the production and consumption of the arts, while, theoretically, it resonates with traditions within ethnomethodology, cognitive sociology, and th…
Musical Patronage and Social Change in Beethoven's Vienna
This article attempts to account for the initial phase of the emergence of serious music ideology in late 18th-and early 19th-century Vienna by examining elite receptivity to the news ideology as it occurred against a backdrop of change in the organizational basis of music sponsorship. The decline of the private house ensembles (Hauskapellen) resulted in a social broadening of music patronage and thereby tended to erode the traditional institutio…
Music sociology: Getting the Music Into the Action
Music sociology has addressed the history of the musical canon, taste and social exclusion. It has also addressed issues of musical value and the perceptual politics of musical reputation. More recently, it has developed perspectives that highlight music's 'active' properties in relation to social action, emotion and cognition. Such a perspective dispenses with the old 'music and society' paradigm (one in which music was typically read as distanc…
Music into action: Performing gender on the Viennese concert stage, 1790-1810
How is Extra-Musical Meaning Possible? Music as a Place and Space for 'Work
Music Listening and Empowerment in Health Promotion: A Study of the Role and Significance of Music in Everyday Life of the Long-term Ill
This study considers music listening and its role as a lay or folk healing practice in the lives of men and women with long-term illnesses and diseases. Twenty–two participants aged 34 to 65 with long–term illnesses and diseases from Oslo and Akershus in Norway, were recruited as a strategic sample involving eight in–depth interviews stretching over a yearfrom 2004 to 2005. The research, participatory and action–oriented, focused on whether parti…
When You're Trying Something on You Picture Yourself in a Place Where They are Playing This Kind of Music' - Musically Sponsored Agency in the British Clothing Retail Sector
Despite the philosophical tradition from Plato onward, sociologists have not yet explored in full music's role as an active ingredient in social formation. This project has been left to environmental psychologists and market researchers who are more interested in 'what' music can cause than in exploring its mechanisms of operation and the implications of these mechanisms for the constitution of social agency. This paper draws upon ethnographic re…
Music and Erotic Agency - Sonic Resources and Social-Sexual Action
Comment l’être et le corps se nouent-ils dans une configuration culturelle ? Comment les produits culturels sont-ils mobilisés, et comment les textes, les images, les structures et les représentations sonores « entrent-elles en action » ? Ce sont là des questions fondamentales pour les études culturelles, la sociologie et la psychologie sociale. Pourtant elles n’ont guère été abordées de front jusqu’ici, et elles ne sauraient faire l’objet d’une …
Historical perspectives in music sociology
Beethoven et l'invention du génie
Beethoven und die Erfindung des Genies In unzähligen Schriften ist Beethoven als das Genie der europäischen Kultur und als Revolutionär der Musik dargestellt worden. Diese Art von Portrait läßt außer Betracht, daß sein Erfolg und sein Ruf des Genies unter seinen Zeitgenossen darüber hinaus als soziale, kulturelle und technische Konstruktion begriffen werden können. Der Artikel untersucht den sozialen Hintergrund der Beethovenschen Laufbahn währen…
From Physiology to Feminism: Reconfiguring body, gender and expertise in natural fertility control
Natural Fertility Control (NFC) has existed on the margins of mainstream contraceptive practice for three decades. In the wake of recent developments in New Reproductive Technology, NFC is being reconfigured and reassessed. It is now poised to enter mainstream contraceptive markets. As configured up until the late 1980s, NFC highlighted 'new facts' about the fertile female body. These 'facts' in turn provided 'natural resources' for the reconfigu…
Music in action: Tinkering, Testing and Tracing Over Time
In this article we draw on a recent, six-year ethnographic study of community music therapy and mental health to highlight strategies and techniques for documenting music's role in processes of change. We place these strategies in dialogue with the ethnographic work on arts and crafts by Paul Atkinson. In tandem with Atkinson, we propose a 'slow' approach focused on micro-processes of musical/para-musical bricolage whereby things are made and tra…
The Musical Composition of Social Reality? Music, Action and Reflexivity
Developments in the sociology of music during the 1980s have brought the sub-field more firmly in to the center of sociological concerns. The worlds' concept, and the concern with music and social status have helped to ground and specify links between music and society. Meanwhile however, questions concerning music's social content have been sidelined. This paper explores music as an active ingredient in the constitution of lived experience. As w…
Musicians Make Markets
Arts markets are not ‘neutral’. Rather, they are inevitably coloured by socio-cultural practices and regularities, some of which are embedded in and afforded by aesthetic forms and the values and images associated with these forms. The stabilisation of distribution and consumption patterns over time may thus be linked to, and structured by, often tacitly delineated meanings, values and practices associated with artistic products (musical works an…
VI. The Role of Music in Intimate Culture: A Case Study
The Pebble in the Pond: Musicing, Therapy, Community
Can Music Fight Disease? Can Cultural Sociology Help? Norwegian Vistas
Rethinking the field of memory studies: A reply
How is Extra-Musical Meaning Possible? Music as a Place and Space for 'Work
Musical Patronage and Social Change in Beethoven's Vienna
This article attempts to account for the initial phase of the emergence of serious music ideology in late 18th-and early 19th-century Vienna by examining elite receptivity to the news ideology as it occurred against a backdrop of change in the organizational basis of music sponsorship. The decline of the private house ensembles (Hauskapellen) resulted in a social broadening of music patronage and thereby tended to erode the traditional institutio…
Comment on Chambliss's "The Mundanity of Excellence"
Chambliss's (1988) article is strongly oriented the task of reconceptualizing talent in ways that make it accessible study. He has attempted shift the conceptual underpinnings of talent from the realm of internal states and traits the realm of external practices and behaviors, and he has done so in ways that reveal talent be a useless concept. This is certainly an important achievement, and it is on these grounds that Chambliss's article has just…
Value-Free Science? Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge (Book)
Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
Musical Life in a Changing Society
Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality.Michele Lamont , Marcel Fournier
Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792–1803
The Musical Composition of Social Reality? Music, Action and Reflexivity
Developments in the sociology of music during the 1980s have brought the sub-field more firmly in to the center of sociological concerns. The worlds' concept, and the concern with music and social status have helped to ground and specify links between music and society. Meanwhile however, questions concerning music's social content have been sidelined. This paper explores music as an active ingredient in the constitution of lived experience. As w…
Beethoven et l'invention du génie
Beethoven und die Erfindung des Genies In unzähligen Schriften ist Beethoven als das Genie der europäischen Kultur und als Revolutionär der Musik dargestellt worden. Diese Art von Portrait läßt außer Betracht, daß sein Erfolg und sein Ruf des Genies unter seinen Zeitgenossen darüber hinaus als soziale, kulturelle und technische Konstruktion begriffen werden können. Der Artikel untersucht den sozialen Hintergrund der Beethovenschen Laufbahn währen…
From Physiology to Feminism: Reconfiguring body, gender and expertise in natural fertility control
Natural Fertility Control (NFC) has existed on the margins of mainstream contraceptive practice for three decades. In the wake of recent developments in New Reproductive Technology, NFC is being reconfigured and reassessed. It is now poised to enter mainstream contraceptive markets. As configured up until the late 1980s, NFC highlighted 'new facts' about the fertile female body. These 'facts' in turn provided 'natural resources' for the reconfigu…
Rationalizing Culture: Ircam, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde.Georgina Born
Performances
Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803
Music and Erotic Agency - Sonic Resources and Social-Sexual Action
Comment l’être et le corps se nouent-ils dans une configuration culturelle ? Comment les produits culturels sont-ils mobilisés, et comment les textes, les images, les structures et les représentations sonores « entrent-elles en action » ? Ce sont là des questions fondamentales pour les études culturelles, la sociologie et la psychologie sociale. Pourtant elles n’ont guère été abordées de front jusqu’ici, et elles ne sauraient faire l’objet d’une …
Music as a technology of the self
Music in Everyday Life
The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an influence on character, social structure and action. There have, however, been few attempts to specify this power empirically and to provide theoretically grounded accounts of music's structuring properties in everyday experience. Music in Everyday Life u…
Music in Everyday Life
When You're Trying Something on You Picture Yourself in a Place Where They are Playing This Kind of Music' - Musically Sponsored Agency in the British Clothing Retail Sector
Despite the philosophical tradition from Plato onward, sociologists have not yet explored in full music's role as an active ingredient in social formation. This project has been left to environmental psychologists and market researchers who are more interested in 'what' music can cause than in exploring its mechanisms of operation and the implications of these mechanisms for the constitution of social agency. This paper draws upon ethnographic re…
Music in Everyday Life
Quand la musique de fond entre en action
Les recherches actuelles en sociologie et psychologie sociale de la musique présentent celle-ci comme un moyen de transmettre des ordres à notre corps. En analysant trois exemples de musiques entendues dans la vie quotidienne (dans les magasins et pendant des cours de gymnastique), il est montré comment la musique est utilisée et peut être diffusée dans certains contextes pour entretenir ou modifier des sentiments, ou encore afin de nous remémore…
VI. The Role of Music in Intimate Culture: A Case Study
Music into action: Performing gender on the Viennese concert stage, 1790-1810
After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology
Theodor W. Adorno placed music at the centre of his critique of modernity and broached some of the most important questions about the role of music in contemporary society. One of his central arguments was that music, through the manner of its composition, affected consciousness and was a means of social management and control. His work was primarily theoretical however, and because these issues were never explored empirically his work has become…
Essays on Music
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