American Music: From Storyville to Woodstock - Tapa dura

-This collection is significant primarily for the question it raises: why is the sociology of music such an infant? . . . [The] sociology of music requires competence in both music and sociology. Few persons have both skills, and of these few, only a fraction might be expected to combine them into a single professional specialty. . . . Books such as the one under review are principally a reminder of the lowly state of the sociological study of music and musicians, and of (by implication) some steps that might be taken to upgrade it.- --Karl Schuessler, Contemporary Sociology "This collection is significant primarily for the question it raises: why is the sociology of music such an infant? . . . [The] sociology of music requires competence in both music and sociology. Few persons have both skills, and of these few, only a fraction might be expected to combine them into a single professional specialty. . . . Books such as the one under review are principally a reminder of the lowly state of the sociological study of music and musicians, and of (by implication) some steps that might be taken to upgrade it." --Karl Schuessler, Contemporary Sociology "This collection is significant primarily for the question it raises: why is the sociology of music such an infant? . . . [The] sociology of music requires competence in both music and sociology. Few persons have both skills, and of these few, only a fraction might be expected to combine them into a single professional specialty. . . . Books such as the one under review are principally a reminder of the lowly state of the sociological study of music and musicians, and of (by implication) some steps that might be taken to upgrade it." --Karl Schuessler, Contemporary Sociology