Surveys the major theoretical ideas which form the foundation of modern sociological study. Bibliogs

Sociological Theory: A Book of Readings

Politics & Social Sciences

Rosenberg, Bernard

Social Sciences

Waveland Pr Inc.

Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America

Travel

Free Pr

Thirty-two composers, conductors, performers, scholars, patrons, critics and others integrally involved in the American classical music milieu offer perceptions, criticisms and praise in assessing the music world and their experiences

The Music Makers

Rosenberg, Deena

Biographies & Memoirs

Columbia University Press

Twenty-five New York City Jewish intellectuals talk about the unique intellectual, cultural, and human milieu of New York City

Creators and Disturbers: Reminiscences by Jewish Intellectuals of New York

Goldstein, Ernest

Community & Culture

Everyday we are influenced, on a variety of levels, by the suggestions and dictums of mass media. This book presents a provocative reevaluation of the pros and cons of Mass Culture (the title of the editors earlier best-selling book)Mas Culture Revisited, with its fresh approach to and examination of the cultural implications of mass media, brings you fully up-to-date on how we;re being stimulated and/or stagnated be medias many influences. The editors, in their individual introductions, set out their very different feelings concerning the value of mass culture. Dr. Rosenbern ("Thumbs down") I side with that earlier Macdonald who saw the masses (which is to say, everybody) as victims of a merciless technological invasion that threatened to destroy their humanity." Dr. White ("Thumbs up"): "There is a distinct danger that if we make the mass media the scapegoat for the miasmic lives we have given ourselves during the century, we may be insulating ourselves from more basic problems." Drs. Rosenberg and White have, in fact, set up a debate of sorts and to this fire they have added the contributions of 29 noted authorities from the fields of sociology, psychology, art, journalism, etc. They consider the full spectrum of media's impact on the fabric of our lives, and present a stimulating probe into the meanings and results of mass culture. Edward Shils, Hannah Arendt, Fred W. Friendlt, Diana Trilling, Mordecai Richlwe, and John Lahr are but a few of the expert observers of our socio-cultural sphere contributing to this work. Is mass culture a plague, a significant motivator or a harmless balm? You may feel strongly one way or another about this. This book may strengthen you position-then again, it may stretch your thinking a little.

Mass Culture Revisited.

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

Looks at the problems of young people in New York, Chicago, and Washington, including poverty, sexual behavior, fighting, and stealing

The Varieties of Delinquent Experience

Silverstein, Harry

Self-Help

Schocken Books

Three out of four Broadway-bound musicals fail to get there, and many of those that do, ultimately fail. The Broadway Musical takes an engrossing look at the industry's successes and failures in an effort to understand the phenomenon of mass collaboration that is Broadway. The authors investigate the complicated machinery of show business from its birth around the turn of the century through its survival of the cost explosions of the 1980s. Through interviews with many of Broadway's top producers, directors, designers, actors, songwriters, lyricists, librettists, musicians, and other artists, they lead us on an intimate tour of the creative process. They also explore the roles of top executives and the reactions of critics and audiences. They conclude with a fascinating look at the inherent conflicts and tensions that have resulted in some of the most seamless and best-loved productions on Broadway. Fans of the genre as well as scholars and students of American culture will delight in this revealing insider's look at the scenes behind the scenes and the history of one of America's most popular forms of entertainment.
 The effort that goes into making a Broadway musical is enormous, first requiring the enthusiasm of a group of initial creative artists and then the cooperation of hundreds of talented individuals and the investment of millions of dollars before each show is ready to open. Each venture is marked perhaps more by conflict than collaboration, and the continuation of the industry seems more remarkable when it is revealed that three out of four Broadway musicals fail to break even on Broadway. What goes into the making of a successful musical? No venture can be a success without good collaboration, but whether it is good or bad in any specific case cannot be known beforehand. The Broadway Musical is an investigation into this phenomenon of collaboration and its seeming unpredictability. To gather information, Bernard Rosenberg and Ernest Harburg have interviewed many of the top producers, directors, designers, players, songwriters, lyricists, librettists, and other artists that are responsible for today's Broadway musicals. Starting with the development of the industry itself, the authors investigate the complicated machinery of show business and detail how it was able to survive the rapidly rising costs of productions in the 1980s. Proceeding to the creative aspects of the show, the authors provide an intimate look at the assembling of the musical at every level, detailing the workings of the top executives, musicians, songwriters, techne, the reaction of the critics and the audience. The book concludes with a lengthy look at the phenomenon of collaboration itself, describing the inherent conflict and tension that often adds to the production of a Broadway musical. The Broadway Musical is an engrossing look at the successes and failures of this most elaborate form of live entertainment.

The Broadway Musical: Collaboration in Commerce and Art

Arts & Photography

Harburg, Ernest

Music

NYU Press

A selective and suggestive introduction to those theoretical ideas that inform the work of contemporary sociology! Sociological Theory: A Book of Readings, Fifth Edition helps readers become acquainted with the major classical theories that have emerged since Auguste Comte coined the term sociology and shows how certain concepts and theories first suggested by an earlier generation have been developed further at a later date. In addition, this compendium offers selections that present special propositions, specific concepts, or examples of substantive theorizing rather than discussions of integrated systems.

Coser, Lewis A.

In 1961, with the New York School of Painting already an international phenomenon in its influence on artists around the world, the authors undertook a study of twenty-five men and women who were painters or sculptors, in an attempt to catch the essence of that particular vanguard, and perhaps to say something useful about the nature of artistic vanguards in general. The artists that Rosenberg and Fliegel interviewed were chosen from among the obviously successful painters and sculptors, those who were known to the public and to whom the reputation of American art everywhere might reasonably be attributed. The artists turned out to be the most individual, though a good proportion of them had shared experience of working for the WPA; after earning their living by the American equivalent of social realism, they felt a sense of liberation in turning to abstraction in painting and sculpture. The individualists were certainly united in that sense, and sometimes also in their express distaste for the middle class–the class into which the largest of them had been born. This is a single instance of a rich and stimulating texture of genuine insights into the psychology of a creative minority, at work in a country that is on the whole not much interested in art.

The Vanguard Artist

History & Criticism

New Amsterdam Books

From Catastrophe to Help for the Retarded

Rivercross Pub

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Sociological Theory: A Book of Readings

Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America

The Music Makers

Creators and Disturbers: Reminiscences by Jewish Intellectuals of New York

Mass Culture Revisited.

The Varieties of Delinquent Experience

The Broadway Musical: Collaboration in Commerce and Art

Sociological Theory: A Book of Readings

The Vanguard Artist

From Catastrophe to Help for the Retarded