Judah Matras

On Counter-Enlightenment, Existential Irony, and Sanctification

Essays in the Sociology of Western Art Musics

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Produktbeschreibung

The book introduces the topics of Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and social demography in Western art musics and shows their historical and sociological importance, while exploring the concepts of "existential irony" and "sanctification," which have not previously been the focus of any other studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781644697467
• ISBN-10: 1644697467
• Artikelnr.: 62480050

Autorenporträt

Judah Matras is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at Carleton University, Ottawa, and at the University of Haifa. He holds degrees in Statistics (B.Sc.) and in Sociology (M.A. and Ph.D.) from the University of Chicago, and has had Visiting Professor appointments at the University of Chicago; the University of Wisconsin, Madison; the University of Washington, Seattle; the Bildungsforschung, Berlin; Harvard University; and Nuffield College, Oxford. Most of his research and publications were devoted to social inequality. stratification, and population studies, but in most recent teaching years he taught courses and seminars in the sociology of music and has presented and published a number of research papers in this field.