Muzyka w funkcji reprezentacji. Między muzykologią a socjologią muzyki

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to compare the understanding of the notion of representation in the musicological and sociological (sociology of music) perspectives. Musicologists interpret the phenomenon of representation in reference to the communicative potential of music, its ability to transmit meaning, musical imagination, and cultural practice. “Representation” is the key concept in the semiotics of music, and ethnomusicology. For the sociologists of music, “representation” is a notion usually connected with symbolic interaction. The most important researchers in this area were: Samuel Gilmore (who concentrated on concert production), and David Grazian (dealing with the question of authenticity in culture and art). In a wide context of different musicological and sociological analyses and surveys, this article is only a modest summary of two articles: Roger Scruton’s Representation in Music [1976] (which gave the first impulse to the consideration of representation in musicology), and Naomi Miyamoto’s Concerts and the Public Sphere in Civil Society... [2013], (in which she argues that “the correct phrase is not «representation» but «re-presentation»: the act of continually showing something to the public”).