Timothy J Dowd
Biographic Data
| ID | 258303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy J Dowd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy J |
| FAMILY NAME | Dowd |
| SIGNATURE | DOWD T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6739-4433 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 714 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
She Still Works Hard for the Money
Music composers exemplify precarious work: they historically have been freelancers and have relied on multiple jobs to subsidize their creative work. We focus here on the gender pay gap amidst such precariousness-heeding their income earned solely from composition and from the totality of jobs recently held. There is no gender pay gap when it comes to income earned from composition but there is a significant gap for income earned from all jobs, s…
Retrospective Consecration Beyond the Mainstream
Based on a sample of 28,360 albums identified by an online community devoted to progressive rock, this article examines factors that shape the retrospective consecration of music that operates beyond the mainstream. Drawing on previous work on fields of cultural production, genre trajectories, and creative careers, the article produces findings that both replicate and innovate. As in previous research, critical acclaim greatly enhances the likeli…
Aesthetic Communities, Histories, and Retrospective Consecration
In this introduction to the special issue "Retrospective cultural consecration: The dynamics of remembering and forgetting," we briefly sketch prior work and new developments in research on aesthetic communities and their collectively constructed histories. Such histories often involve the retrospective consecration of a select few exemplars. Contributors to this special issue examine the dynamics by which aesthetic communities remember as well a…
Talk of Heritage
This article examines the “benchmarks” that specialist critics offered when reviewing progressive rock recordings—the other bands and musicians that critics mentioned as points of reference in a given review. In analyzing 5,118 reviews from the Dutch Progressive Rock Page (2003–13), we show how these benchmarks have two roles. First, the more than 20,000 instances of benchmarks employed by these critics combined to form a musical hierarchy with a…
The Ties Among the Notes
Previous work shows that social capital matters for careers of creative workers, leading to jobs and bolstered income. The authors focus here on factors that may facilitate various types of social capital possessed by jazz musicians and on how the options of building connections may differ for peripheral versus dominant musicians. Among other things, the authors find that both general education and formal music training promote formal social capi…
Globalization and Diversity in Cultural Fields
Scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities often approaches globalization, particularly that involving that media content, by emphasizing such concepts as "imperialism" and "hybridization." While theoretically rich, this scholarship can sometimes given little attention to how various actors and arrangements can impinge on the global flow and circulation of media content. This special issue seeks to move beyond such limitations by weddi…
Richard A. Peterson (1932–2010)
A message from the new editors
Michèle Ollivier (1957-2010)
What Is Sociological about Music
The sociology of music has become a vibrant field of study in recent decades. While its proponents are well aware of this field's contributions and relevance, we focus here on demonstrating its merit to the broader sociological community. We do so by addressing the following questions: What is music, sociologically speaking? How do individuals and groups use music? How is the collective production of music made possible? How does music relate to …
Introduction
Introduction
All that jazz
The Sociology of Music
Legitimacy as a Social Process
To gain an in-depth understanding of legitimacy as a general social process, we review contemporary approaches to legitimacy within two areas of sociology: social psychology and organizations. A comparison of these distinct approaches allows us to explain the process, both in implicit and explicit ways at different levels of analysis, through which a social object is construed as legitimate. This comparison also suggests four stages in the proces…
Charting Gender
Research on creative workers speaks to the relative lack of job opportunities \navailable, the role that changing production logics play in shaping \nsuch opportunities, and gender disparities in success. Tracking the 22,561 \nhits found on Billboard’s mainstream charts, we examine various factors \nthat may spur or hamper the success of female recording acts. We find \nthat the expanding logic of decentralized production eliminates the negative …
Worlds of Music
Concentration and Diversity Revisited
What shapes the diversity of media markets? A literature on the U.S. recording industry offers competing accounts. The cyclical account stresses the negative effect of market concentration, where high concentration dampens diversity. The open system account stresses a mitigated effect, where the logic of decentralized production reduces concentration's negative effect. However, both accounts contain notable gaps. This article fills these gaps and…
The Rise of a Jazz Art World
The embeddedness of cultural industries
Production perspectives in the sociology of music
Making music sociology
Culture and commodifictation
Draws on Neo‐Weberian theory to argue that commodification is itself a cultural process, whilst not discounting the potentially negative effect of commercialisation. Examines product conception in the early US recording industry citing three disparate periods. Shows that in the late 1870s, recording firms sold and leased phonographs to entrepreneurs for public exhibitions, the the late 1880s firms leased phonographs and graphophones for dictation…
Organizing the musical canon
Introduction
Legitimacy as a Social Process
To gain an in-depth understanding of legitimacy as a general social process, we review contemporary approaches to legitimacy within two areas of sociology: social psychology and organizations. A comparison of these distinct approaches allows us to explain the process, both in implicit and explicit ways at different levels of analysis, through which a social object is construed as legitimate. This comparison also suggests four stages in the proces…
The Market that Antitrust Built
How do new business models emerge? Neoinstitutionalists argue that the process often begins when a policy shift undermines the status quo; groups then vie to define the best alternative. The authors explore the role of power in selecting between two alternative business models available to railroads from 1897, when antitrust laws banned the cartel-the prevailing model for managing competition. Predatory railroads prescribed several methods for de…
What Is Sociological about Music
The sociology of music has become a vibrant field of study in recent decades. While its proponents are well aware of this field's contributions and relevance, we focus here on demonstrating its merit to the broader sociological community. We do so by addressing the following questions: What is music, sociologically speaking? How do individuals and groups use music? How is the collective production of music made possible? How does music relate to …
Concentration and Diversity Revisited
What shapes the diversity of media markets? A literature on the U.S. recording industry offers competing accounts. The cyclical account stresses the negative effect of market concentration, where high concentration dampens diversity. The open system account stresses a mitigated effect, where the logic of decentralized production reduces concentration's negative effect. However, both accounts contain notable gaps. This article fills these gaps and…
Organizing the musical canon
All that jazz
The Ties Among the Notes
Previous work shows that social capital matters for careers of creative workers, leading to jobs and bolstered income. The authors focus here on factors that may facilitate various types of social capital possessed by jazz musicians and on how the options of building connections may differ for peripheral versus dominant musicians. Among other things, the authors find that both general education and formal music training promote formal social capi…
Charting race
Retrospective Consecration Beyond the Mainstream
Based on a sample of 28,360 albums identified by an online community devoted to progressive rock, this article examines factors that shape the retrospective consecration of music that operates beyond the mainstream. Drawing on previous work on fields of cultural production, genre trajectories, and creative careers, the article produces findings that both replicate and innovate. As in previous research, critical acclaim greatly enhances the likeli…
Production perspectives in the sociology of music
Talk of Heritage
This article examines the “benchmarks” that specialist critics offered when reviewing progressive rock recordings—the other bands and musicians that critics mentioned as points of reference in a given review. In analyzing 5,118 reviews from the Dutch Progressive Rock Page (2003–13), we show how these benchmarks have two roles. First, the more than 20,000 instances of benchmarks employed by these critics combined to form a musical hierarchy with a…
The Embedded Actor and the Invention of Natural Economic Law
Economic sociologists stress that economic actors are embedded in a sociohistorical context that shapes and constrains activity. Neoinstitutionalists build on this idea and argue that economic actors are embedded in two key ways. First, they are embedded in the rationalized worldview described by Weber in which every end has an optimal means. Second, economic actors are embedded in a local context in which they collectively search for optimal str…
She Still Works Hard for the Money
Music composers exemplify precarious work: they historically have been freelancers and have relied on multiple jobs to subsidize their creative work. We focus here on the gender pay gap amidst such precariousness-heeding their income earned solely from composition and from the totality of jobs recently held. There is no gender pay gap when it comes to income earned from composition but there is a significant gap for income earned from all jobs, s…
Introduction
Introduction
Globalization and Diversity in Cultural Fields
Scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities often approaches globalization, particularly that involving that media content, by emphasizing such concepts as "imperialism" and "hybridization." While theoretically rich, this scholarship can sometimes given little attention to how various actors and arrangements can impinge on the global flow and circulation of media content. This special issue seeks to move beyond such limitations by weddi…
Introduction
The embeddedness of cultural industries
Making music sociology
Rationalizing Culture
Anthropologist Georgina Born presents one of the first ethnographies of a powerful western cultural organization, the renowned Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. As a year-long participant-observer, Born studied the social and cultural economy of an institution for research and production of avant-garde and computer music. She gives a unique portrait of IRCAM's composers, computer scientists, technicians…
The Embedded Actor and the Invention of Natural Economic Law
Economic sociologists stress that economic actors are embedded in a sociohistorical context that shapes and constrains activity. Neoinstitutionalists build on this idea and argue that economic actors are embedded in two key ways. First, they are embedded in the rationalized worldview described by Weber in which every end has an optimal means. Second, economic actors are embedded in a local context in which they collectively search for optimal str…
History without a Subject
Postmodernism in America: An Introduction * Postmodernism and Social Theory * Postmodern Identity and Postmodern Political Mobilization * Postmodernity as a Regime of Accumulation?: From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation * The Globalizing World Economy, the Compression of Time, and the Spatial Reorganization of Social Domination * Postmodernity and Flexible Stratification: Is Class Still Material? * Reorganized Capitalism: New Processes of Power a…
The Market that Antitrust Built
How do new business models emerge? Neoinstitutionalists argue that the process often begins when a policy shift undermines the status quo; groups then vie to define the best alternative. The authors explore the role of power in selecting between two alternative business models available to railroads from 1897, when antitrust laws banned the cartel-the prevailing model for managing competition. Predatory railroads prescribed several methods for de…
Culture and commodifictation
Draws on Neo‐Weberian theory to argue that commodification is itself a cultural process, whilst not discounting the potentially negative effect of commercialisation. Examines product conception in the early US recording industry citing three disparate periods. Shows that in the late 1870s, recording firms sold and leased phonographs to entrepreneurs for public exhibitions, the the late 1880s firms leased phonographs and graphophones for dictation…
Organizing the musical canon
Introduction
Charting race
Concentration and Diversity Revisited
What shapes the diversity of media markets? A literature on the U.S. recording industry offers competing accounts. The cyclical account stresses the negative effect of market concentration, where high concentration dampens diversity. The open system account stresses a mitigated effect, where the logic of decentralized production reduces concentration's negative effect. However, both accounts contain notable gaps. This article fills these gaps and…
The Rise of a Jazz Art World
The embeddedness of cultural industries
Production perspectives in the sociology of music
Making music sociology
Charting Gender
Research on creative workers speaks to the relative lack of job opportunities \navailable, the role that changing production logics play in shaping \nsuch opportunities, and gender disparities in success. Tracking the 22,561 \nhits found on Billboard’s mainstream charts, we examine various factors \nthat may spur or hamper the success of female recording acts. We find \nthat the expanding logic of decentralized production eliminates the negative …
Worlds of Music
Legitimacy as a Social Process
To gain an in-depth understanding of legitimacy as a general social process, we review contemporary approaches to legitimacy within two areas of sociology: social psychology and organizations. A comparison of these distinct approaches allows us to explain the process, both in implicit and explicit ways at different levels of analysis, through which a social object is construed as legitimate. This comparison also suggests four stages in the proces…
The Sociology of Music
Introduction
Introduction
All that jazz
Richard A. Peterson (1932–2010)
A message from the new editors
Michèle Ollivier (1957-2010)
What Is Sociological about Music
The sociology of music has become a vibrant field of study in recent decades. While its proponents are well aware of this field's contributions and relevance, we focus here on demonstrating its merit to the broader sociological community. We do so by addressing the following questions: What is music, sociologically speaking? How do individuals and groups use music? How is the collective production of music made possible? How does music relate to …
Globalization and Diversity in Cultural Fields
Scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities often approaches globalization, particularly that involving that media content, by emphasizing such concepts as "imperialism" and "hybridization." While theoretically rich, this scholarship can sometimes given little attention to how various actors and arrangements can impinge on the global flow and circulation of media content. This special issue seeks to move beyond such limitations by weddi…
Sociology (25 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (21 works) · Political science (18 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (16 works) · Music History and Culture (15 works) · Art (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Social science (11 works)