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Book 2017.0

Sounds, Societies, Significations

edited by Rima Povilionienė

Edition: 1 edition

Music Springer Cham 9783319470597 Available

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Other title information: Numanistic Approaches to Music

Annotation: This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well frequented in musicology. As readers will see, music has many roles to play in society. Music can be a generator of social phenomena, or a result of them; it can enhance or activate social actions, or simply co-habit with them. Above all, music has a stable position within society, in that it actively participates in it. Music can either describe or prescribe social aspects; musicians may have a certain position/role in society (e.g., the “popstar” as fashion leader, spokesman for political issues, etc.). Depending on the type of society, music may have a certain “meaning” or “function” (music does not mean the same thing everywhere in the world). Lastly, music can define a society, and it is not uncommon for it to best define a particular historical moment.

Identifier: 9783319470597

Status: Available

Book 1999.0

Estrategias globales

coordinated by Antonio Caro and Carlos A. Scolari

Social La Crujía Ediciones | FELS 9789876011396 Available

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Other title information: Publicidad, marcas y semiocapitalismo

Annotation: deSignis once again places the problem of branding and advertising on the stratospheric stage within the framework of global strategies in post-industrial societies. Many authors have deeply appreciated the importance of objects and value systems that come into play in consumer society. As has been repeatedly pointed out, the commodity has a semiotic component since the exchange of goods has numerous concomitances with the exchange of messages, an idea that was present in Marx, also in Saussire and explicitly raised in the classic texts of Baudrillard and Rossi-Landi. (translated with google translate)

Identifier: 9789876011396

Status: Available

Book 1994.0

The Socialness of Things

edited by Stephen Harold Riggins

Social Mouton de Gruyter 3110141337 Available

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Other title information: Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects

Notes: This book is based on the proceedings of an international conference which took place at the University of Toronto in 1990.

Annotation: The term "socialness" is a neologism that is used in this volume to call attention to the integration of objects in the social fabric of everyday life. Specialists in material culture studies have understood for some time, that societies consist of both people and artifacts. It is not only with people and animals that we interact but also with objects. The chapters in the first part of the volume deal with artefacts such as furniture, mementoes, and knickknacks, which can be manipulated as social "others" – entities with which one can socialize or make a part in socialisation processes such as establishing a bond, conveying a message, etc. The second section of articles concerns artefacts whose dimensions take such proportions that humans become dwarfed with respect to them, such as tourists travelling to visit them or shoppers being herded through their artificial geography as if flowing within an oversized organism. In the concluding section, the artefacts examined are by contrast so adjusted to the proportion of the human body, so close to it that they become an indissociable part of the social persona sticking to the skin, expressing better than any other means of the socialness - fashion.

Identifier: 3110141337

Status: Available

Book 1990.0

Ideology and Modern culture

John B. Thompson

Dependent title: Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication

Social Polity Press 0745600816 Available

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Annotation: In this major work, informed by materials from several disciplines and theoretical orientations, the author develops a distinctive new account of the theory of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern societies.In the two centuries since is first appeared in France, the concept of ideology has undergone many transformations. It has been twisted, reformulated, recast, and finally filtered back into the everyday language of social and political life. Although there is much that is misleading and erroneous in the traditions of ideology, the author shows that it still defines a terrain of analysis that remains central to contemporary social sciences and continues to be the site of lively theoretical debate.The key to his analysis is what he terms the "mediazation" of the culture—the general process by which the transmission of symbolic forms becomes increasingly reliant on the technical and institutional apparatuses of the media industries. Building on the work of Geertz and others, the author asserts that symbolic forms are embedded in such structured social contexts as power relations, forms of conflict, and inequalities in the distribution of resources, and that any discussion of mass communication must embrace its political as well as epistemological content.

Identifier: 0745600816

Status: Available

Journal Article 1979

A Semiotic Approach to Ritual Drama

KATHRYN VANCE STAIANO

In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.225

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.225

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Journal Article 1979

Charles Morris †

CHARLES HARTSHORNE

In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.193

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.193

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Journal Article 1979

Coding Dramatic Efficiency in Plays: From Text to Stage

JEAN ALTER

In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.247

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.247

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Journal Article 1979

In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.349

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.349

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Journal Article 1979

Semiotic Elements in Yoruba Art and Ritual

J.R.O. OJO

In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.333

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.333

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Journal Article 1979

Sonstiges

In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.u

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.u

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Journal Article 1979

The Rhetoric of Liberation Movement Posters

ANDRE STEIN

In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.195

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.28.3-4.195

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