Tia DeNora (born 1958) is
Professor
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of
Sociology of Music and Director of Research, in the Department of
Sociology
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Philosophy at the
University of Exeter
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Biography
DeNora's undergraduate studies were in
musicology and
sociology
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. She completed her
PhD in Sociology in 1989 at the
University of California, San Diego
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. From then until 1992, she worked at
University of Wales, Cardiff, where DeNora was a
University of Wales
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Fellow from 1989-1991. DeNora moved to
Exeter in 1992. DeNora was Chair of the
European Sociological Association
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History
ESA was establ ...
Network on Sociology of the Arts from 1999–2001 and is a Vice President of the
International Sociological Association
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Research Committee on Sociology of the Arts. She was an elected member of the Council of the
American Sociological Association Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology from 1994–1997 and is currently on the Council of the American Sociological Association Culture Section (until 2008). With Pete Martin, she has co-edited the
Manchester University Press series, ''Music and Society''.
Since 2010, DeNora has been collaborating with music therapists
Gary Ansdell and Sarah Wilson from the charity
Nordoff robbins on a longitudinal study of music and mental health, which is intended to result in a self-described "triptych" of scholarly publications, of which the first two have been issued as of 2015: ''Music Asylums: Wellbeing Through Music in Everyday Life'' (2013), authored by DeNora, and ''Making Sense of Reality: Culture and Perception in Everyday Life'' (2014), authored by Ansdell.
In July 2018 DeNora was elected Fellow of the
British Academy
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It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spa ...
(FBA).
Publications
*''Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna 1792-1803'', Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1995.
*''Music in Everyday Life'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
*''After
Adorno
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He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critica ...
: Rethinking Music Sociology'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
*''Musical Consciousness'',
Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media and the Arts, 2001 (July), with W.R. Witkin, editor.
**(Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association Culture Section Book Prize, 2005)
*''Music Asylums: Wellbeing through Music in Everyday Life'', Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013.
Criticism
Pianist and musicologist
Charles Rosen
Charles Welles Rosen (May 5, 1927December 9, 2012) was an American pianist and writer on music. He is remembered for his career as a concert pianist, for his recordings, and for his many writings, notable among them the book ''The Classical Sty ...
rebutted ''Beethoven and the Construction of Genius'' in an article "Did Beethoven Have All the Luck?" in which he challenges DeNora's assumptions by insisting that we do indeed know many if not most of the works of Beethoven's contemporaries; that many have been analyzed, revived and recorded; and that they do not approach Beethoven's originality, breadth of thought, or structural sophistication.
[
] Even with this criticism, a blurb was pulled from it for the back cover of DeNora's book.
References
Beethoven scholars
Living people
1958 births
Sociomusicologists
American sociologists
American women sociologists
University of California, San Diego alumni
Academics of the University of Exeter
American women musicologists
Fellows of the British Academy
20th-century American musicologists
21st-century American musicologists
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