Harris M Berger
Biographic Data
| ID | 95970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harris M Berger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harris M |
| FAMILY NAME | Berger |
| SIGNATURE | BERGER H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Cultures of Sound Network: The Genesis of an International Alliance
The Cultures of Sound Network is an international alliance of cultural institutions that develops public engagement projects around music and sound. Since its inception in 2018, the network has used collaborative inquiry to mobilize music and sound knowledge across North America and beyond, serve diverse communities, including Indigenous ones, and bridge divides between museums, universities, cultural organizations, and publics. This article disc…
The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures
A source of profound insights into human existence and the nature of lived experience, phenomenology is among the most influential intellectual movements of the last hundred years. The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures brings ideas from the phenomenological tradition of Continental European philosophy into conversation with theoretical, ethnographic, and historical work from ethnomusicology, anthropology, sound studies, folkl…
Theory for Ethnomusicology: Histories, Conversations, Insights
Theory for Ethnomusicology: Histories, Conversations, Insights, Second Edition, is a foundational work for courses in ethnomusicological theory. The book examines key intellectual movements and topic areas in social and cultural theory, and explores the way they have been taken up in ethnomusicological research. New co-author Harris M. Berger and Ruth M. Stone investigate the discipline's past, present, and future, reflecting on contemporary conc…
Call and Response: "Music, Power, and the Ethnomusicological Study of Politics and Culture "New Directions for Ethnomusicological Research into the Politics of Music and Culture: Issues, Projects, and…
Across the humanities and social sciences, a wide range of scholars seek to understand the role that expressive culture in general and music in particular play in the politics of social life. Though it may once have been controversial, the notion that music has meanings or social dynamics that we may call political would not, I think, be a provocative one for scholars in our field today. For example, we now agree that music is a key medium throug…
Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music Around the World
Metal, Rock, and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience
Metal, Rock, and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience
This vivid ethnography of the musical lives of heavy metal, rock, and jazz musicians in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio shows how musicians engage with the world of sound to forge meaningful experiences of music. Unlike most popular music studies, which only provide a scholar's view, this book is based on intensive fieldwork and hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews. Rich descriptions of the musical life of metal bars and jazz clubs get readers clos…
Bauman's Verbal Art and the Social Organization of Attention: The Role of Reflexivity in the Aesthetics of Performance
In Richard Bauman's landmark study Verbal Art as Performance, reflexivity plays a small but important role. Combining ideas from Verbal Art with insights from phenomenology, this article uses the concept of reflexivity to re-examine basic facets of expressive interaction and explores the structure of intersubjectivity in performance. Field data on American heavy metal music and the promenade of central Italy are used to reveal the crucial role th…
Introduction: Toward New Perspectives on Verbal Art as Performance
Introduction:Toward New Perspectives on Verbal Art as Performance The articles for this special issue came out of a panel presented at the 1997 American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. That year marked the 20th anniversary of the publication in book form of Richard Bauman's landmark study, Verbal Art as Performance. The confluence of this noteworthy anniversary with the return of the AFS Annual Meeting to Austin, Texas—the place where Bauman and…
Bauman'sVerbal Artand the Social Organization of Attention: The Role of Reflexivity in the Aesthetics of Performance
In Richard Bauman's landmark study Verbal Art as Performance, reflexivity plays a small but important role. Combining ideas from Verbal Art with insights from phenomenology, this article uses the concept of reflexivity to re-examine basic facets of expressive interaction and explores the structure of intersubjectivity in performance. Field data on American heavy metal music and the promenade of central Italy are used to reveal the crucial role th…
Metal, Rock and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience
Character Divination and Kinetic Sculpture in the Central Italian Passeggiata (Ritual Promenade): Interpretive Frameworks and Expressive Practices from a Body-Centered Perspective
This article explores the interplay of bodily practices and interpretive frameworks in folk-lore performance. A case study of the Italian passeggiata (ritual promenade), the essay shows how culturally specific beliefs about the relationship between character, sociability, and the body inform expressive behavior and its interpretation. Ideas from practice theory and performance studies illuminate the unique conditions under which individual bodily…
Tramps like Us: Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans
Based on three years of ethnographic research with Bruce Springsteen fans, and informed by the author's own experiences as a fan, Tramps Like Us is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which ordinary people form special, sustained attachments to Bruce Springsteen and his music and how those attachments function in people's daily lives to create meaning, shape identity, and create community. An insider's narrative about Springsteen fans - who…
Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions
Unlike their rock 'n' roll predecessors, many rock musicians of the mid-sixties came to consider themselves as artists, as self-conscious makers of a new sonic medium. Sixties Rock offers a provocative look at these artists and their innovations in two pivotal rock genres: garage rock and psychedelic music.Delving into everything from harmony to hardware, Michael Hicks shows what makes this music tick and what made it unique in its time. Now avai…
Death metal tonality and the act of listening
In recent years popular music scholars have paid increasing attention to musical sound. From Robert Walser's landmark work on heavy metal (1993), to Alan Moore's important analysis of rock style periods (1993), to a number of shorter studies (Whiteley 1990; Josephson 1992; Bowman 1995; Ford 1995; Hawkins 1996; Edström 1996), more and more scholars have recognised that all levels of scholarly focus must be pursued if we are to gain purchase on the…
The Practice of Perception: Multi-Functionality and Time in the Musical Experiences of a Heavy Metal Drummer
n this article I will argue that musical perception is best understood as a kind of practice and explore some of broad consequences of this orientation for music research. I use term practice in dialectical sense elaborated by writers such as Pierre Bourdieu (1977) and Anthony Giddens (1979, 1984, 1993). In their writings, practice (or human action) has been considered as underlying social reality from which seemingly intractable opposites such a…
Bauman's Verbal Art and the Social Organization of Attention: The Role of Reflexivity in the Aesthetics of Performance
In Richard Bauman's landmark study Verbal Art as Performance, reflexivity plays a small but important role. Combining ideas from Verbal Art with insights from phenomenology, this article uses the concept of reflexivity to re-examine basic facets of expressive interaction and explores the structure of intersubjectivity in performance. Field data on American heavy metal music and the promenade of central Italy are used to reveal the crucial role th…
Death metal tonality and the act of listening
In recent years popular music scholars have paid increasing attention to musical sound. From Robert Walser's landmark work on heavy metal (1993), to Alan Moore's important analysis of rock style periods (1993), to a number of shorter studies (Whiteley 1990; Josephson 1992; Bowman 1995; Ford 1995; Hawkins 1996; Edström 1996), more and more scholars have recognised that all levels of scholarly focus must be pursued if we are to gain purchase on the…
Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions
Unlike their rock 'n' roll predecessors, many rock musicians of the mid-sixties came to consider themselves as artists, as self-conscious makers of a new sonic medium. Sixties Rock offers a provocative look at these artists and their innovations in two pivotal rock genres: garage rock and psychedelic music.Delving into everything from harmony to hardware, Michael Hicks shows what makes this music tick and what made it unique in its time. Now avai…
The Practice of Perception: Multi-Functionality and Time in the Musical Experiences of a Heavy Metal Drummer
n this article I will argue that musical perception is best understood as a kind of practice and explore some of broad consequences of this orientation for music research. I use term practice in dialectical sense elaborated by writers such as Pierre Bourdieu (1977) and Anthony Giddens (1979, 1984, 1993). In their writings, practice (or human action) has been considered as underlying social reality from which seemingly intractable opposites such a…
Call and Response: "Music, Power, and the Ethnomusicological Study of Politics and Culture "New Directions for Ethnomusicological Research into the Politics of Music and Culture: Issues, Projects, and…
Across the humanities and social sciences, a wide range of scholars seek to understand the role that expressive culture in general and music in particular play in the politics of social life. Though it may once have been controversial, the notion that music has meanings or social dynamics that we may call political would not, I think, be a provocative one for scholars in our field today. For example, we now agree that music is a key medium throug…
Theory for Ethnomusicology: Histories, Conversations, Insights
Theory for Ethnomusicology: Histories, Conversations, Insights, Second Edition, is a foundational work for courses in ethnomusicological theory. The book examines key intellectual movements and topic areas in social and cultural theory, and explores the way they have been taken up in ethnomusicological research. New co-author Harris M. Berger and Ruth M. Stone investigate the discipline's past, present, and future, reflecting on contemporary conc…
Introduction: Toward New Perspectives on Verbal Art as Performance
Introduction:Toward New Perspectives on Verbal Art as Performance The articles for this special issue came out of a panel presented at the 1997 American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. That year marked the 20th anniversary of the publication in book form of Richard Bauman's landmark study, Verbal Art as Performance. The confluence of this noteworthy anniversary with the return of the AFS Annual Meeting to Austin, Texas—the place where Bauman and…
Bauman'sVerbal Artand the Social Organization of Attention: The Role of Reflexivity in the Aesthetics of Performance
In Richard Bauman's landmark study Verbal Art as Performance, reflexivity plays a small but important role. Combining ideas from Verbal Art with insights from phenomenology, this article uses the concept of reflexivity to re-examine basic facets of expressive interaction and explores the structure of intersubjectivity in performance. Field data on American heavy metal music and the promenade of central Italy are used to reveal the crucial role th…
Character Divination and Kinetic Sculpture in the Central Italian Passeggiata (Ritual Promenade): Interpretive Frameworks and Expressive Practices from a Body-Centered Perspective
This article explores the interplay of bodily practices and interpretive frameworks in folk-lore performance. A case study of the Italian passeggiata (ritual promenade), the essay shows how culturally specific beliefs about the relationship between character, sociability, and the body inform expressive behavior and its interpretation. Ideas from practice theory and performance studies illuminate the unique conditions under which individual bodily…
The Practice of Perception: Multi-Functionality and Time in the Musical Experiences of a Heavy Metal Drummer
n this article I will argue that musical perception is best understood as a kind of practice and explore some of broad consequences of this orientation for music research. I use term practice in dialectical sense elaborated by writers such as Pierre Bourdieu (1977) and Anthony Giddens (1979, 1984, 1993). In their writings, practice (or human action) has been considered as underlying social reality from which seemingly intractable opposites such a…
Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions
Unlike their rock 'n' roll predecessors, many rock musicians of the mid-sixties came to consider themselves as artists, as self-conscious makers of a new sonic medium. Sixties Rock offers a provocative look at these artists and their innovations in two pivotal rock genres: garage rock and psychedelic music.Delving into everything from harmony to hardware, Michael Hicks shows what makes this music tick and what made it unique in its time. Now avai…
Death metal tonality and the act of listening
In recent years popular music scholars have paid increasing attention to musical sound. From Robert Walser's landmark work on heavy metal (1993), to Alan Moore's important analysis of rock style periods (1993), to a number of shorter studies (Whiteley 1990; Josephson 1992; Bowman 1995; Ford 1995; Hawkins 1996; Edström 1996), more and more scholars have recognised that all levels of scholarly focus must be pursued if we are to gain purchase on the…
Character Divination and Kinetic Sculpture in the Central Italian Passeggiata (Ritual Promenade): Interpretive Frameworks and Expressive Practices from a Body-Centered Perspective
This article explores the interplay of bodily practices and interpretive frameworks in folk-lore performance. A case study of the Italian passeggiata (ritual promenade), the essay shows how culturally specific beliefs about the relationship between character, sociability, and the body inform expressive behavior and its interpretation. Ideas from practice theory and performance studies illuminate the unique conditions under which individual bodily…
Tramps like Us: Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans
Based on three years of ethnographic research with Bruce Springsteen fans, and informed by the author's own experiences as a fan, Tramps Like Us is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which ordinary people form special, sustained attachments to Bruce Springsteen and his music and how those attachments function in people's daily lives to create meaning, shape identity, and create community. An insider's narrative about Springsteen fans - who…
Metal, Rock, and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience
Metal, Rock, and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience
This vivid ethnography of the musical lives of heavy metal, rock, and jazz musicians in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio shows how musicians engage with the world of sound to forge meaningful experiences of music. Unlike most popular music studies, which only provide a scholar's view, this book is based on intensive fieldwork and hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews. Rich descriptions of the musical life of metal bars and jazz clubs get readers clos…
Bauman's Verbal Art and the Social Organization of Attention: The Role of Reflexivity in the Aesthetics of Performance
In Richard Bauman's landmark study Verbal Art as Performance, reflexivity plays a small but important role. Combining ideas from Verbal Art with insights from phenomenology, this article uses the concept of reflexivity to re-examine basic facets of expressive interaction and explores the structure of intersubjectivity in performance. Field data on American heavy metal music and the promenade of central Italy are used to reveal the crucial role th…
Introduction: Toward New Perspectives on Verbal Art as Performance
Introduction:Toward New Perspectives on Verbal Art as Performance The articles for this special issue came out of a panel presented at the 1997 American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. That year marked the 20th anniversary of the publication in book form of Richard Bauman's landmark study, Verbal Art as Performance. The confluence of this noteworthy anniversary with the return of the AFS Annual Meeting to Austin, Texas—the place where Bauman and…
Bauman'sVerbal Artand the Social Organization of Attention: The Role of Reflexivity in the Aesthetics of Performance
In Richard Bauman's landmark study Verbal Art as Performance, reflexivity plays a small but important role. Combining ideas from Verbal Art with insights from phenomenology, this article uses the concept of reflexivity to re-examine basic facets of expressive interaction and explores the structure of intersubjectivity in performance. Field data on American heavy metal music and the promenade of central Italy are used to reveal the crucial role th…
Metal, Rock and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience
Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music Around the World
Call and Response: "Music, Power, and the Ethnomusicological Study of Politics and Culture "New Directions for Ethnomusicological Research into the Politics of Music and Culture: Issues, Projects, and…
Across the humanities and social sciences, a wide range of scholars seek to understand the role that expressive culture in general and music in particular play in the politics of social life. Though it may once have been controversial, the notion that music has meanings or social dynamics that we may call political would not, I think, be a provocative one for scholars in our field today. For example, we now agree that music is a key medium throug…
Theory for Ethnomusicology: Histories, Conversations, Insights
Theory for Ethnomusicology: Histories, Conversations, Insights, Second Edition, is a foundational work for courses in ethnomusicological theory. The book examines key intellectual movements and topic areas in social and cultural theory, and explores the way they have been taken up in ethnomusicological research. New co-author Harris M. Berger and Ruth M. Stone investigate the discipline's past, present, and future, reflecting on contemporary conc…
The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures
A source of profound insights into human existence and the nature of lived experience, phenomenology is among the most influential intellectual movements of the last hundred years. The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures brings ideas from the phenomenological tradition of Continental European philosophy into conversation with theoretical, ethnographic, and historical work from ethnomusicology, anthropology, sound studies, folkl…
Cultures of Sound Network: The Genesis of an International Alliance
The Cultures of Sound Network is an international alliance of cultural institutions that develops public engagement projects around music and sound. Since its inception in 2018, the network has used collaborative inquiry to mobilize music and sound knowledge across North America and beyond, serve diverse communities, including Indigenous ones, and bridge divides between museums, universities, cultural organizations, and publics. This article disc…
Art (13 works) · Aesthetics (11 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (10 works) · Music History and Culture (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Musical (8 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (7 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works)