R Nowak
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 22323 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R Nowak |
| PRENOMES | R |
| SOBRENOME | Nowak |
| ASSINATURA | NOWAK R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2017-3091 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Railway modelling as object-relation examining the discursive framing of a serious leisure
Railway modelling involves the reproduction, miniaturisation and mimesis – with various levels of accuracy and realism – of life scenes that are centred around the display and/or running of model trains. Railway modelling is a serious leisure activity inasmuch as it requires continuous engagement on the part of the hobbyists as well as the development of various skills. The scholarly literature on railway modelling has described it as serious lei…
The Procedures of Investigating Academic Misconduct
It’s like Lifting the Power”
Powerlifting, a competitive strength-based sport, offers a rich and compelling site for investigating the digital mediation of gendered subjectivities. The substantive implications of feminist knowledge as interventions in physical cultures are well documented. This article seeks to extend the onto-epistemological precepts of a Feminist New Materialist framework to further a generative analysis of women’s physically active moving bodies. The digi…
Les sorties culturelles des Français·es
Le champ des sorties culturelles représente un domaine de pratiques qui a connu, depuis les années 1970, un mouvement d’extension continu. Certaines sorties comme la sortie au cinéma sont très communes tandis que d’autres, comme la sortie à l’opéra ou concert de rap, sont plus circonscrites et différenciées. S’appuyant sur les données quantitatives de l’enquête Pratiques culturelles en France de 2018 et sur une enquête qualitative réalisée en 202…
Genre work
The established conceptual frameworks in the sociology of music largely name forms of social collective, albeit emphasising different characteristics. 'Scene' and 'neo-tribe' are the principal contemporary examples of this. In this article, we describe scene and neo-tribe as conceptual responses to what questions (What kind of sociality is this? What kind of cultural context is this?). We engage critically with scene and neo-tribe, and with the u…
Déclarer son goût musical
On analyse ordinairement les goûts et les pratiques culturelles à l’aide de listes préétablies de catégories génériques qui sont proposées aux enquêtés dans le cadre des études dédiées. L’enquête sur les pratiques culturelles en France, réalisée en 2018 par le ministère de la Culture, offre la possibilité d’examiner les catégories librement citées en réponse à une question ouverte sur le « type de musique préféré ». L’objectif de cet article est …
La compétence culturelle
Cultural categories such as ‘comedy’, ‘rock’, ‘painting’ and others – where generic categories prevail – are ordinary in social life and in sociological analyses. Yet, these are often considered as uncertain designations, even arbitrary and not common. If asked, individuals would be incapable to identify a cultural object, and ultimately in a common manner. The Cultural Practices, Media and Information Technologies (PMTI) inquiry, conducted in 20…
A cultural justice approach to popular music heritage in deindustrialising cities
Deindustrialisation contributes to significant transformations for local communities, including rising unemployment, poverty and urban decay. Following the ‘creative city’ phenomenon in cultural policy, deindustrialising cities across the globe have increasingly turned to arts, culture and heritage as strategies for economic diversification and urban renewal. This article considers the potential role that popular music heritage might play in revi…
We were never cool
This article examines knowledge production in the sociology of music. Focusing on the idea of cool music, we interrogate the nature of music researchers' relationship with their object of research. While the qualification and connotation of cool is widespread in popular music, sociology has largely neglected to engage with it as an object of research. Instead, the sociological investigation of music audiences is divided between two opposed but co…
Music Consumption and Technological Eclecticism
This article is interested in a techno-cultural moment usually summarized by the phrase ‘digital age’. We explore how people who belong to Generation Y and were young at the time of the development of digital music technologies have adopted and used those new technological possibilities while maintaining a relationship with other media and technologies, such as the compact disc (CD), the vinyl disc and, eventually, the cassette tape. We situate o…
Tastes of our time
This article explores the relationship between age cohorts and music taste. Drawing on quantitative data about the contemporary distribution of French music tastes, we note that a large majority of individuals are eclectic. Although social class remains a significant structuring variable, age appears as another critical factor in the distribution of individuals’ taste for certain genres and artists. Deploying a regression analysis including a com…
Digital Music Distribution
Reviewed by Raphaël Nowak, Griffith University
Vaporwave Is (Not) a Critique of Capitalism”
Vaporwave, first emerging in the early 2010s, is a genre of music characterised by extensive sampling of earlier “elevator music,” such as smooth jazz, MoR, easy listening, and muzak. Audio and visual markers of the 1980s and 1990s, white-collar workspaces, media technology, and advertising are prominent features of the aesthetic. The (academic, vernacular, and press) writing about vaporwave commonly positions the genre as an ironic or ambivalent…
Curatorial practice in popular music museums
Museums have been central to the institutionalisation of popular music as heritage; yet, there has been little scholarly focus on the curatorial strategies behind the exhibition of popular music’s past. This article outlines an emerging typological framework of structuring concepts in curatorial practice in popular music museums. The typology brings into conversation concepts previously identified by a number of popular music museum scholars. The…
Friendships with benefits? Examining the role of friendship in semi-structured interviews within music research
This article explores the ‘methodology of friendship’ and its wider potential within music research. Drawing on two research examples that made use of ‘friendship’ in distinct fashions – one that explores music listening practices in everyday life and the other, music as a site for racialisation – the article discusses how friendship can be incorporated within semi-structured interviews. The case studies act as examples of how to negotiate alteri…
Consuming Music in the Digital Age
This book addresses the issue of music consumption in the digital era of technologies. It explores how individuals use music in the context of their everyday lives and how, in return, music acquires c
Music Listening Activities in the Digital Age
This article discusses how the digital age of music technologies has contributed to the transformation of the activities of music listening, highlighting cultural participation in distinct worlds through “adequate music.”
When is a discovery? The affective dimensions of discovery in music consumption
This article explores the concept of music discovery and seeks to provide a definition of the act of discovering music content. Research on music consumption has weakly theorized what the moment of “discovery” consists of, since it has been more preoccupied with debates about the conditions of discoveries, which either highlight the importance of individuals’ social milieus or the enhanced technological agency that they enjoy in the digital age. …
The multiplicity of iPod cultures in everyday life
This article looks at the Apple iPod as an iconic and hybrid music object and explores the multiplicity of iPod cultures in everyday life. It reviews the existing literature on the iPod and advances two main paradigms on iPod culture – the individual cognition enabled by the Apple object during private and mobile listening practices or the algorithmic socialization afforded by the use of the Genius recommendation system for example. Tackling thes…
Curating popular music heritage
In parallel with a globally ageing ‘baby-boomer’ population, Western societies have seen an increase in the number of museums devoted to popular music. However, the discourse, design and display of traditional museums is at odds with the culture of popular music and its audience. This article explores how curators of ‘new museums’ of popular music harness aspects of storytelling to increase patron engagement within their exhibits. Drawing on inte…
The sound of music heritage
A significant amount of previous academic research into popular music museums centres on critiques of the content, design and layout of predominantly authorised institutions. Throughout much of this research, authors consistently criticise the use, or rather, the perceived misuse, of music played within music museums, arguing that the music itself, rather than artefacts, constitutes the most significant part of popular music exhibition. This arti…
Popular music and society
Following up on the 1995 and 2007 editions, a new version of ‘Popular Music & Society’ was published by Polity Press in 2014 and co-authored by Brian Longhurst (the author of the two previous editi
Investigating the interactions between individuals and music technologies within contemporary modes of music consumption
This paper investigates the missing link between music and material studies in analyses of everyday music reception. In light of the increasing material fragmentation and heterogeneity of contemporary modes of music consumption, I interrogate how to theorize the materiality of music technologies within everyday interactions with music. Thus, I review accounts on ‘music and everyday life’ before discussing contemporary modes of music consumption. …
Analysing Everyday Sound Environments
This article develops the notion of 'sound environment' as a new way of theorizing the relationship between music, audiences and everyday life. The article draws on findings from an empirical case study conducted with young people between the ages of 21 and 32. In focusing on this age range, we consider 'mundane' music consumption practices in contrast to the more 'spectacular' forms of youth cultural music consumption often documented in academi…
The sound of music heritage
A significant amount of previous academic research into popular music museums centres on critiques of the content, design and layout of predominantly authorised institutions. Throughout much of this research, authors consistently criticise the use, or rather, the perceived misuse, of music played within music museums, arguing that the music itself, rather than artefacts, constitutes the most significant part of popular music exhibition. This arti…
Curating popular music heritage
In parallel with a globally ageing ‘baby-boomer’ population, Western societies have seen an increase in the number of museums devoted to popular music. However, the discourse, design and display of traditional museums is at odds with the culture of popular music and its audience. This article explores how curators of ‘new museums’ of popular music harness aspects of storytelling to increase patron engagement within their exhibits. Drawing on inte…
A cultural justice approach to popular music heritage in deindustrialising cities
Deindustrialisation contributes to significant transformations for local communities, including rising unemployment, poverty and urban decay. Following the ‘creative city’ phenomenon in cultural policy, deindustrialising cities across the globe have increasingly turned to arts, culture and heritage as strategies for economic diversification and urban renewal. This article considers the potential role that popular music heritage might play in revi…
Friendships with benefits? Examining the role of friendship in semi-structured interviews within music research
This article explores the ‘methodology of friendship’ and its wider potential within music research. Drawing on two research examples that made use of ‘friendship’ in distinct fashions – one that explores music listening practices in everyday life and the other, music as a site for racialisation – the article discusses how friendship can be incorporated within semi-structured interviews. The case studies act as examples of how to negotiate alteri…
Analysing Everyday Sound Environments
This article develops the notion of 'sound environment' as a new way of theorizing the relationship between music, audiences and everyday life. The article draws on findings from an empirical case study conducted with young people between the ages of 21 and 32. In focusing on this age range, we consider 'mundane' music consumption practices in contrast to the more 'spectacular' forms of youth cultural music consumption often documented in academi…
It’s like Lifting the Power”
Powerlifting, a competitive strength-based sport, offers a rich and compelling site for investigating the digital mediation of gendered subjectivities. The substantive implications of feminist knowledge as interventions in physical cultures are well documented. This article seeks to extend the onto-epistemological precepts of a Feminist New Materialist framework to further a generative analysis of women’s physically active moving bodies. The digi…
Tastes of our time
This article explores the relationship between age cohorts and music taste. Drawing on quantitative data about the contemporary distribution of French music tastes, we note that a large majority of individuals are eclectic. Although social class remains a significant structuring variable, age appears as another critical factor in the distribution of individuals’ taste for certain genres and artists. Deploying a regression analysis including a com…
Les sorties culturelles des Français·es
Le champ des sorties culturelles représente un domaine de pratiques qui a connu, depuis les années 1970, un mouvement d’extension continu. Certaines sorties comme la sortie au cinéma sont très communes tandis que d’autres, comme la sortie à l’opéra ou concert de rap, sont plus circonscrites et différenciées. S’appuyant sur les données quantitatives de l’enquête Pratiques culturelles en France de 2018 et sur une enquête qualitative réalisée en 202…
When is a discovery? The affective dimensions of discovery in music consumption
This article explores the concept of music discovery and seeks to provide a definition of the act of discovering music content. Research on music consumption has weakly theorized what the moment of “discovery” consists of, since it has been more preoccupied with debates about the conditions of discoveries, which either highlight the importance of individuals’ social milieus or the enhanced technological agency that they enjoy in the digital age. …
We were never cool
This article examines knowledge production in the sociology of music. Focusing on the idea of cool music, we interrogate the nature of music researchers' relationship with their object of research. While the qualification and connotation of cool is widespread in popular music, sociology has largely neglected to engage with it as an object of research. Instead, the sociological investigation of music audiences is divided between two opposed but co…
Music Consumption and Technological Eclecticism
This article is interested in a techno-cultural moment usually summarized by the phrase ‘digital age’. We explore how people who belong to Generation Y and were young at the time of the development of digital music technologies have adopted and used those new technological possibilities while maintaining a relationship with other media and technologies, such as the compact disc (CD), the vinyl disc and, eventually, the cassette tape. We situate o…
Genre work
The established conceptual frameworks in the sociology of music largely name forms of social collective, albeit emphasising different characteristics. 'Scene' and 'neo-tribe' are the principal contemporary examples of this. In this article, we describe scene and neo-tribe as conceptual responses to what questions (What kind of sociality is this? What kind of cultural context is this?). We engage critically with scene and neo-tribe, and with the u…
Curatorial practice in popular music museums
Museums have been central to the institutionalisation of popular music as heritage; yet, there has been little scholarly focus on the curatorial strategies behind the exhibition of popular music’s past. This article outlines an emerging typological framework of structuring concepts in curatorial practice in popular music museums. The typology brings into conversation concepts previously identified by a number of popular music museum scholars. The…
Investigating the interactions between individuals and music technologies within contemporary modes of music consumption
This paper investigates the missing link between music and material studies in analyses of everyday music reception. In light of the increasing material fragmentation and heterogeneity of contemporary modes of music consumption, I interrogate how to theorize the materiality of music technologies within everyday interactions with music. Thus, I review accounts on ‘music and everyday life’ before discussing contemporary modes of music consumption. …
Analysing Everyday Sound Environments
This article develops the notion of 'sound environment' as a new way of theorizing the relationship between music, audiences and everyday life. The article draws on findings from an empirical case study conducted with young people between the ages of 21 and 32. In focusing on this age range, we consider 'mundane' music consumption practices in contrast to the more 'spectacular' forms of youth cultural music consumption often documented in academi…
Popular music and society
Following up on the 1995 and 2007 editions, a new version of ‘Popular Music & Society’ was published by Polity Press in 2014 and co-authored by Brian Longhurst (the author of the two previous editi
Consuming Music in the Digital Age
This book addresses the issue of music consumption in the digital era of technologies. It explores how individuals use music in the context of their everyday lives and how, in return, music acquires c
Music Listening Activities in the Digital Age
This article discusses how the digital age of music technologies has contributed to the transformation of the activities of music listening, highlighting cultural participation in distinct worlds through “adequate music.”
When is a discovery? The affective dimensions of discovery in music consumption
This article explores the concept of music discovery and seeks to provide a definition of the act of discovering music content. Research on music consumption has weakly theorized what the moment of “discovery” consists of, since it has been more preoccupied with debates about the conditions of discoveries, which either highlight the importance of individuals’ social milieus or the enhanced technological agency that they enjoy in the digital age. …
The multiplicity of iPod cultures in everyday life
This article looks at the Apple iPod as an iconic and hybrid music object and explores the multiplicity of iPod cultures in everyday life. It reviews the existing literature on the iPod and advances two main paradigms on iPod culture – the individual cognition enabled by the Apple object during private and mobile listening practices or the algorithmic socialization afforded by the use of the Genius recommendation system for example. Tackling thes…
Curating popular music heritage
In parallel with a globally ageing ‘baby-boomer’ population, Western societies have seen an increase in the number of museums devoted to popular music. However, the discourse, design and display of traditional museums is at odds with the culture of popular music and its audience. This article explores how curators of ‘new museums’ of popular music harness aspects of storytelling to increase patron engagement within their exhibits. Drawing on inte…
The sound of music heritage
A significant amount of previous academic research into popular music museums centres on critiques of the content, design and layout of predominantly authorised institutions. Throughout much of this research, authors consistently criticise the use, or rather, the perceived misuse, of music played within music museums, arguing that the music itself, rather than artefacts, constitutes the most significant part of popular music exhibition. This arti…
Vaporwave Is (Not) a Critique of Capitalism”
Vaporwave, first emerging in the early 2010s, is a genre of music characterised by extensive sampling of earlier “elevator music,” such as smooth jazz, MoR, easy listening, and muzak. Audio and visual markers of the 1980s and 1990s, white-collar workspaces, media technology, and advertising are prominent features of the aesthetic. The (academic, vernacular, and press) writing about vaporwave commonly positions the genre as an ironic or ambivalent…
Curatorial practice in popular music museums
Museums have been central to the institutionalisation of popular music as heritage; yet, there has been little scholarly focus on the curatorial strategies behind the exhibition of popular music’s past. This article outlines an emerging typological framework of structuring concepts in curatorial practice in popular music museums. The typology brings into conversation concepts previously identified by a number of popular music museum scholars. The…
Friendships with benefits? Examining the role of friendship in semi-structured interviews within music research
This article explores the ‘methodology of friendship’ and its wider potential within music research. Drawing on two research examples that made use of ‘friendship’ in distinct fashions – one that explores music listening practices in everyday life and the other, music as a site for racialisation – the article discusses how friendship can be incorporated within semi-structured interviews. The case studies act as examples of how to negotiate alteri…
Digital Music Distribution
Reviewed by Raphaël Nowak, Griffith University
Music Consumption and Technological Eclecticism
This article is interested in a techno-cultural moment usually summarized by the phrase ‘digital age’. We explore how people who belong to Generation Y and were young at the time of the development of digital music technologies have adopted and used those new technological possibilities while maintaining a relationship with other media and technologies, such as the compact disc (CD), the vinyl disc and, eventually, the cassette tape. We situate o…
Tastes of our time
This article explores the relationship between age cohorts and music taste. Drawing on quantitative data about the contemporary distribution of French music tastes, we note that a large majority of individuals are eclectic. Although social class remains a significant structuring variable, age appears as another critical factor in the distribution of individuals’ taste for certain genres and artists. Deploying a regression analysis including a com…
A cultural justice approach to popular music heritage in deindustrialising cities
Deindustrialisation contributes to significant transformations for local communities, including rising unemployment, poverty and urban decay. Following the ‘creative city’ phenomenon in cultural policy, deindustrialising cities across the globe have increasingly turned to arts, culture and heritage as strategies for economic diversification and urban renewal. This article considers the potential role that popular music heritage might play in revi…
We were never cool
This article examines knowledge production in the sociology of music. Focusing on the idea of cool music, we interrogate the nature of music researchers' relationship with their object of research. While the qualification and connotation of cool is widespread in popular music, sociology has largely neglected to engage with it as an object of research. Instead, the sociological investigation of music audiences is divided between two opposed but co…
Déclarer son goût musical
On analyse ordinairement les goûts et les pratiques culturelles à l’aide de listes préétablies de catégories génériques qui sont proposées aux enquêtés dans le cadre des études dédiées. L’enquête sur les pratiques culturelles en France, réalisée en 2018 par le ministère de la Culture, offre la possibilité d’examiner les catégories librement citées en réponse à une question ouverte sur le « type de musique préféré ». L’objectif de cet article est …
La compétence culturelle
Cultural categories such as ‘comedy’, ‘rock’, ‘painting’ and others – where generic categories prevail – are ordinary in social life and in sociological analyses. Yet, these are often considered as uncertain designations, even arbitrary and not common. If asked, individuals would be incapable to identify a cultural object, and ultimately in a common manner. The Cultural Practices, Media and Information Technologies (PMTI) inquiry, conducted in 20…
Genre work
The established conceptual frameworks in the sociology of music largely name forms of social collective, albeit emphasising different characteristics. 'Scene' and 'neo-tribe' are the principal contemporary examples of this. In this article, we describe scene and neo-tribe as conceptual responses to what questions (What kind of sociality is this? What kind of cultural context is this?). We engage critically with scene and neo-tribe, and with the u…
It’s like Lifting the Power”
Powerlifting, a competitive strength-based sport, offers a rich and compelling site for investigating the digital mediation of gendered subjectivities. The substantive implications of feminist knowledge as interventions in physical cultures are well documented. This article seeks to extend the onto-epistemological precepts of a Feminist New Materialist framework to further a generative analysis of women’s physically active moving bodies. The digi…
Les sorties culturelles des Français·es
Le champ des sorties culturelles représente un domaine de pratiques qui a connu, depuis les années 1970, un mouvement d’extension continu. Certaines sorties comme la sortie au cinéma sont très communes tandis que d’autres, comme la sortie à l’opéra ou concert de rap, sont plus circonscrites et différenciées. S’appuyant sur les données quantitatives de l’enquête Pratiques culturelles en France de 2018 et sur une enquête qualitative réalisée en 202…
Railway modelling as object-relation examining the discursive framing of a serious leisure
Railway modelling involves the reproduction, miniaturisation and mimesis – with various levels of accuracy and realism – of life scenes that are centred around the display and/or running of model trains. Railway modelling is a serious leisure activity inasmuch as it requires continuous engagement on the part of the hobbyists as well as the development of various skills. The scholarly literature on railway modelling has described it as serious lei…
The Procedures of Investigating Academic Misconduct
Sociology (18 obras) · Art (17 obras) · Music History and Culture (15 obras) · Aesthetics (13 obras) · Visual arts (12 obras) · Popular music (11 obras) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (8 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (8 obras)