Hormigos Ruiz, Jaime (Ed.) (2025). El discurso social de la música. Universidad de Alicante

Abstract

El discurso social de la música proposes understanding music as a total social phenomenon, beyond the merely aesthetic or emotional. Drawing on contributions from sixteen researchers, the volume defines the “social discourse of music” as the set of practices, narratives, and meanings collectively constructed around musical experience, and introduces the notion of the “social ear” as a critical capacity to recognize in music its cultural, historical, political, and affective codes. The work is organized into sections that address the theoretical foundations of this approach, the identity-based and affective dimensions of listening, music as a tool for resistance and collective cohesion, its pedagogical and transformative potential, and the impact of digitalization, streaming, and artificial intelligence on musical creation and consumption. Taken as a whole, it offers a solid theoretical and methodological framework that renews the sociology of music and opens pathways for research on identity, politics, technology, and education.