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Date Posted: 09:52:14 04/28/05 Thu
Author: Kim Herman
Subject: Re: Music as Social Action: "Bluegrass Picks"
In reply to: Joseph Kobs 's message, "Music as Social Action: "Bluegrass Picks"" on 07:16:52 04/28/05 Thu

Yes I agree with you and the Martin that music is a communal and social action foremost. However, I wonder; Is there a point when music is simply by and for the individual? This question is remniscent of the trouble many of us have had with Goffman and in sociology in general. Martin cites at one point all that goes into an orchestra performance: People invent and manufacture instruments, someone writes a song, others adapt and play the song, someone writes it, there is an audience, and each instrument in the orchestra plays an important role in the forming of a group sound. No doubt, orchestras and "picks" are intensely social. But what about humming a tune to yourself, or sitting down with an instrument and improvising for your own satisfaction? Where is society in that? As a sociologist, I believe that society is active and shapes even our most private moments and behaviors- but was about human agency in music???

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