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Globalization and Musical Hierarchy in the United States, France, Germany, and the Netherlands

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This chapter builds on comparative research on shifting cultural hierarchies and cultural globalization by considering changes in the musical field in the United States, France, Germany, and the Netherlands from 1955 to 2005. Using newspaper coverage in the four countries as an indicator, we consider the extent to which there is an increasingly global orientation to musical actors over time. Amid globalization, newspaper coverage of classical music was resilient to change, remaining highly focused on European musical actors. By contrast, popular music is in much greater flux since 1955 with a heightened focus on American and Anglophone musical actors. Our findings highlight the complex relationship between domestic and transnational fields of music as well as the role of media attention in processes of cultural globalization.

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  1. Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA

    Vaughn Schmutz

  2. Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Timothy J. Dowd

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  1. Institute for Creative and Cultural, Entrepreneurship Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK

    Victoria D. Alexander

  2. University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

    Samuli Hägg

  3. University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

    Simo Häyrynen

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    Erkki Sevänen

Appendix 1: Additional Information About Coding of Newspaper Articles

Appendix 1: Additional Information About Coding of Newspaper Articles

Newspapers sampled

France: Le Monde, Le Figaro

Germany: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Suddeutsche Zeitung

Netherlands: NRC Handelsblad, de Volkskrant

United States: New York Times, Los Angeles Times

Genre codes for classical and popular music

Main genre

Subgenre

Classical music

Solo performer

Instrumental—solo

Instrumental with orchestra or ensemble

Vocal—solo

Vocal with orchestra or ensemble

Opera/Operetta

 

Symphony

 

Chamber music

 

Choir music

 

Popular music

Jazz and improvised music

Traditional jazz/Ragtime/Dixieland

Big Band/Swing

Bebop/Cool jazz

Fusion jazz

Free jazz

Latin jazz

Other improvised music

Blues and country

Traditional American music (e.g., bluegrass, zydeco)

Blues

Country (and Western)

Pop music

Rock/Rock ’n’ Roll

Black music/Rhythm and Blues (soul, funk, R&B)

Punk/New wave

Metal/Hardrock

Disco

Rap/Hip-hop

Techno/Dance/House

New age music/Ambient

Other pop music (including mainstream top 40)

World/Folk music

European traditional/Folk music

Latin/Latin American music

Asian music

Reggae/Ska

Combination/Other world music

Other popular music

Easy listening

Film music/Soundtracks

Chanson

Schlager

Smartlap/Levenslied

Brass band

Carnival music

Kleinkunst/Cabaret

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Schmutz, V., Dowd, T.J. (2018). Globalization and Musical Hierarchy in the United States, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. In: Alexander, V., Hägg, S., Häyrynen, S., Sevänen, E. (eds) Art and the Challenge of Markets Volume 1. Sociology of the Arts . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64586-5_8

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