Table Of ContentSOCIOLOGY OF THE ARTS
Sociology of the Arts
in Action
New Perspectives
on Creation, Production,
and Reception
Edited by
Arturo Rodríguez Morató
Álvaro Santana-Acuña
Sociology of the Arts
Series Editors
Katherine Appleford
Kingston University
London, UK
Anna Goulding
University of Newcastle
Newcastle, UK
Dave O’Brien
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
Mark Taylor
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, UK
This series brings together academic work which considers the production
and consumption of the arts, the social value of the arts, and analyses and
critiques the impact and role of cultural policy and arts management. By
exploring the ways in which the arts are produced and consumed, the
series offers further understandings of social inequalities, power relation-
ships and opportunities for social resistance and agency. It highlights the
important relationship between individual, social and political attitudes,
and offers significant insights into the ways in which the arts are develop-
ing and changing. Moreover, in a globalised society, the nature of arts
production, consumption and policy making is increasingly cosmopolitan,
and arts are an important means for building social networks, challenging
political regimes, and reaffirming and subverting social values across
the globe.
Arturo Rodríguez Morató
Alvaro Santana-Acuña
Editors
Sociology of the Arts
in Action
New Perspectives on Creation, Production,
and Reception
Editors
Arturo Rodríguez Morató Alvaro Santana-Acuña
Departamento de Sociología Department of Sociology
University of Barcelona Whitman College
Barcelona, Spain Walla Walla, WA, USA
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Sociology of the Arts
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Praise for Sociology of the Arts in Action
“A well-designed collection of essays by a new generation of social scientists that
highlights the ubiquity and considerable diversity of artistic productions, emotions
and appreciations.”
—Pierre-Michel Menger, Collège de France, author of The Economics
of Creativity. Art and Achievement under Uncertainty
“With a treasure trove of studies ranging from food, dance and architecture, to
opera, literature, and soccer, this collection provides the most wide-ranging and
up-to-date overview of the vibrant and diverse new sociology of the arts. The edi-
tors’ decision to focus on Spanish-speaking authors is a much-welcomed interven-
tion to open-up narratives, traditions and empirical cases that have been forced to
live in the margins of the dominant Anglophone academic discourse. All in all, a
must read for any scholar working in cultural sociology and the sociology of
the arts.”
—Fernando Domínguez Rubio, University of California, San Diego, author
of Still Life. Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum
“This book arrives at the perfect moment in the evolution of research on culture.
Our predecessors carved out the field of inquiry, built theories and methods, and
expanded our definition of the arts; the moment to globalize the canon has arrived,
and this book is an accelerant for that process. The twelve scholars authoring this
volume work on topics both of enduring importance and recent popularity; use
many methods of inquiry to explore their topic matter; and form part of a cohort
of multi-lingual scholars who are essential to our future vibrancy as a discipline.
Published first in Spanish, the book also poses a challenge to scholars: to find and
share the strongest research with as many readers as possible. I rejoice in their
accomplishments, and will be eager to teach this book to all students of culture.”
—Jennifer C. Lena, Associate Professor and Program Director of Arts
Administration at Columbia University, USA.
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ontents
1 New Perspectives for the Sociology of the Arts 1
Arturo Rodríguez Morató
Part I Reconsidering the Frames of Artistic Production 45
2 Heteronomy and Necessity: How Architects Design for
Architectural Competitions 47
Ignacio Farías
3 Creative Settings: The Influence of Place on Urban
Cultural Creativity Processes 69
Matías I. Zarlenga
4 Cultural Creation in Culinary Fields: The Cases of New
York and San Francisco 93
Vanina Leschziner
Part II New Visions on Creative Practices 115
5 The Jolie Môme Theatre Company: A Sociology of
Artistic Work in Political Theater 117
Marisol Facuse
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6 Habitus in Dance: The Social and Artistic Skills of a
Rehearsal 143
Dafne Muntanyola-Saura
7 Representations of the Uncertain: Art, Astronomy, and
Dark Matter 165
Paola Castaño
Part III The Artwork: Expanding the Analysis of Its
Materiality and Meaning(s) 189
8 With the Beatles: Generating the Recorded Rock Album
Formula 191
Cristián Martín Pérez-Colman
9 Concrete Materialities: Architectural Surfaces and the
Cultural Sociology of Modernity 213
Eduardo de la Fuente
10 The Literary Classic and the Underappreciated
Significance of Indexical Expressions 239
Alvaro Santana-Acuña
Part IV Deepening Reception Analysis: Aesthetic Experience,
Evaluation and Critique 269
11 Objects, Emotion and Biography or How to Love Opera
and Football Jerseys Again 271
Claudio E. Benzecry
12 How Contemporary Art Is Evaluated: The Artistic
Quality Criteria of the Quebec Arts and Letters Council 295
Marian Misdrahi
CONTENTS ix
13 A Sociology of Art, Protest and Emotions: Disrupting the
Institutionalisation of Corporate Sponsorship at Tate
Galleries 319
Marta Herrero
Index 341
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otes on ontributors
Claudio E. Benzecry is Professor of Communication Studies and
Sociology at Northwestern University, USA. His book The Opera Fanatic:
Ethnography of an Obsession (2011) received the Mary Douglas Award for
best book in the Sociology of Culture (2012) and honorable mention for
the ASA Distinguished Book award (2014).His new book, The Perfect Fit:
Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry, is based on a five-year ethno-
graphic research on fashion, creativity and globalization, following how a
shoe is imagined, sketched, designed, developed and produced in between
the US, Europe, Brazil and China.
Paola Castaño is Sociologist of Science and a research fellow at the
Egenis Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, the University of Exeter,
UK. Her main subject of research is science on the International Space
Station, with a focus on experiments in plant biology, biomedicine and
particle astrophysics and assessments of value about the station. She holds
a PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago, and her work has
been funded by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the
Free University of Berlin and the British Academy with a Newton
International Fellowship held at Cardiff University.
Marisol Facuse received her Doctor of Sociology of Art & Culture and
Master of Sociology of Art and the Imaginary from the University of
Grenoble, and Master of Philosophy and Sociology from the University of
Concepción, Chile. She is also an associate professor in the Department of
Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Chile and
the Coordinator of the Sociology of Art and Cultural Practices Study
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