XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018)

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Music, Community and Leisure

RC13 Sociology of Leisure (host committee)

Language: English

Listening to music and making music are significant parts of human culture, and have received much attention by musicologists, anthropologists and sociologists of music. Sociologists of leisure, on the other hand, have largely neglected music as a leisure space, and a leisure activity. In this session, we will explore how music constructs community, makes social identity and belonging, and provides pleasure and sensuality, in this world of violence and injustice. We are interested in theories of leisure and music and community, as well as empirical research that explores the connections between leisure and music and community. We are interested in making sense of music in leisure, and music as leisure, and the limits of music in creating place and space in this globalized world.