Difference between revisions of "Commodification and mediaization of religious music"
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− | What happens when the sound (music) of religious ritual is turned into a media product, transformed into a commodity circulating within a media system? | + | What happens when the sound (music) of religious ritual is turned into a media product, transformed into a commodity circulating within a media system? |
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+ | Conversely: how is mediated music incorporated into religious practices? | ||
Are meanings, effects, functions of religious music thereby transformed? Does the religious system itself change? What is the impact on the music system? | Are meanings, effects, functions of religious music thereby transformed? Does the religious system itself change? What is the impact on the music system? | ||
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+ | What questions must be answered in order to describe such transformations completely? (for instance: what is mediated and what is not mediated? How are media products circulated? What is the radius of circulation? Who buys them and how are they used? How are intellectual property rights resolved? Who profits?) | ||
Please think about these questions, and add other questions that may occur to you as well, below. | Please think about these questions, and add other questions that may occur to you as well, below. |
Revision as of 13:15, 25 March 2006
What happens when the sound (music) of religious ritual is turned into a media product, transformed into a commodity circulating within a media system?
Conversely: how is mediated music incorporated into religious practices?
Are meanings, effects, functions of religious music thereby transformed? Does the religious system itself change? What is the impact on the music system?
What questions must be answered in order to describe such transformations completely? (for instance: what is mediated and what is not mediated? How are media products circulated? What is the radius of circulation? Who buys them and how are they used? How are intellectual property rights resolved? Who profits?)
Please think about these questions, and add other questions that may occur to you as well, below. Also try to find:
- scholarly articles or web sites discussing this topic
- web sites exemplifying this topic
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Reading assignment
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Scholarly articles or web sites discussing this topic
Web sites exemplifying this topic
Examples of mediated religious music on the web.
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