| Chapter one: Introudction |
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Portable music |
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Individual musical experience |
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Adapting Bull's analysis to focus on music |
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The functions of portable music |
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Data collection |
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| Chapter two: Chosen sounds and learning |
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Function one: Chosen sounds |
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Function two: Learning |
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| Chapter three: Aestheticisation, environmental control, boundary demarcation, and interpersonal mediation |
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Function three: Aestheticisation |
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Function four: Environmental control |
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Function five: Boundary demarcation |
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Function six: Interpersonal mediation |
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| Chapter four: Company, aural mnemonic, mood management, time management and activation |
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Function seven: Company |
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Function eight: Aural mnemonic |
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Function nine: Mood management |
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Function ten: Time management |
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Function eleven: Activation |
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| Chapter five: Conclusions |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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Product Description
Using iPods or portable CD players, millions of people take their music with them every day to modify their daily experiences. Encased in headphones, they listen to music for entertainment, but also use it, among other things, as a buffer between themselves and the world outside, and to manage their moods. What is it about music that makes it useful in different ways to so many people? Have people always used music in these ways, or only since the technology of the Walkman and then the mp3 player made music portable? In this wide-ranging exploration of how and why we use portable music, Andrew Williams sheds new light on the role music plays in our everyday lives. Portable Music and Its Functions will be of use to students and scholars of sociology and cultural studies as well as of musicology.
About the Author
Andrew Williams is Adjunct Associate Lecturer in the Elder School of Music at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Portable Music and Its Functions results from his continuing interest in mobile musical experience, which began with his Ph.D. research in ethnomusicology.
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