Beyond Style and Genre

Aesthetic Concepts in Popular Culture
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-8309-4770-7
Verlag: Waxmann Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Band 39, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Populäre Kultur und Musik

Popular culture today manifests itself in a dense network of styles and genres, while the aesthetic preferences of the Audience are highly differentiated. Besides, popular culture also implies a diversity of aesthetic strategies, discourses and value systems that traverse the symbolic demarcations between styles and genres and are effective across different artistic fields and individual media. Aesthetic concepts such as camp, retro or trash are expressions of a transgressive mode of Production that facilitates a multitude of cross-connections between aesthetic spaces of experience. The volume brings together authors from different disciplines who approach aesthetic concepts in popular culture on a historical, theoretical and methodological level, analyze them on the basis of various aesthetic phenomena, or discuss aspects relevant to their theoretical contextualization, such as the emergence and establishment of artistic practices and aesthetic value systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jost, Christofer

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Über Autor(innen)

Jost, Christofer
Christofer Jost ist Oberkonservator am Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik sowie Privatdozent am Institut für Medienkulturwissenschaft der Universität Freiburg. 2008 wurde er in Musikpädagogik an der Universität Mainz promoviert. 2011 hat er sich an der Universität Basel für Medienwissenschaft habilitiert (Umhabilitierung 2018 an der Universität Freiburg). 2013 vertrat er einen Lehrstuhl für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Universität Mannheim. Seine Schwerpunkte in Forschung und Lehre sind: Populäre Musik, digitale Medien und Musik, audiovisuelle Medienkulturen, Performance Studies sowie Musik und Bildung.

Christofer Jost is a lecturer at the Center for Popular Culture and Music and associate professor (Privatdozent) at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, both at the University of Freiburg. In 2008, he received his doctorate in music pedagogy from the University of Mainz. In 2011, he completed his Habilitation in media studies at the University of Basel (Umhabilitation 2018 at the University of Freiburg). In 2013, he represented a chair of media and communication studies at the University of Mannheim. He is currently head of the joint project “Music Objects of Popular Culture. Function and Meaning of Instrument Technology and Audio Media in Changing Socio-cultural Constellations” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (funding period 2018–2021). His main areas of research and teaching are: popular music, digital media and music, audiovisual media cultures, music pedagogy and performance studies.