*首次展现西方古典乐界打造精英演奏家模式
*用法语、俄语、波兰语、英语进行的第一手采访
*访谈了90位小提琴手、建立了339位独奏学生档案
*分剖独奏职业的国际化、天才演奏家的低龄化等
*消除音乐老师和学生、家长之间的认知隔阂
*讲解大师班在晋级、精艺、扩展人脉等方面的运行规则
*关注评委、指挥、伴奏者、音乐会组织者、乐器修理师、音响师、经纪人等少为人知的重要角色
*音乐教育不仅有关乐器技艺的练习与打磨，更是一次社会化过程
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19世纪的意大利曾有这样一则传说：小提琴大师帕格尼尼把自己的灵魂交给魔鬼，由此换得出神入化的演奏技艺。你是否也曾好奇，马友友怎样成功书写他的传奇；朗朗又如何横空出世？本书虽以小提琴界为研究主体，却意在展现整个西方古典乐界打造精英演奏家的模式： 野心勃勃的家长自作主张，引 领孩子走上一条前途未卜的人生道路。他们与老师合作，力图让年幼的孩子克服爱玩天性，苦练乐器。老师带给学生的不只有乐理和演奏技巧，更包括独奏界的处事规则和人脉资源。他们甚至亲自为学生参加比赛、获得演出机会打通关系。指挥、经纪人、小提琴制作师……一个又一个角色在独奏教育中逐渐登场。然而，所有人都小心翼翼地维护着家长和学生时而脆弱、时而炽热的梦想；尽管他们都清楚，绝大多数学生无法走通这条独奏之路。
在近二十年日复一日的高强度乐器训练中，独奏学生不仅需经历自我怀疑和彷徨，更要苦苦寻觅进入古典乐市场的契机——师从一位独奏大师、赢得一场重大比赛，或是一把稀世小提琴…… 没错，他们的成功亦有模式，远非天赋异禀和精通演奏那么简单。
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一流的民族志观察、扎实的社会学分析和一段段引人入胜的故事共同组成了这本书。它向我们讲述了一个复杂、且有些残酷的世界——小提琴表演界；而这与我们从报纸上读到的截然不同。此书没有像如今大量存在的那些社会学著作一样，陷入无止境的文献引用和理论堆砌之中。作者运用另一种方式，将理论分析与事例恰到好处地结合起来。我从书中得知，原来乐器修理师、收藏家、音响师以及资助者都是漫长、曲折的独奏之路上必不可少的力量。只有堪称非凡的田野投入才能带给我们如此丰富、完整的信息。
——霍华德S .贝克 （Howard S. Becker），社会学芝加哥学派代表人物之一，美国越轨社会学、艺术音乐社会学家，“标签理论”奠基人。
这本书显然是迄今为止对于古典音乐表演家们最杰出的研究。如此深度的民族志考察和研究模式，短时间内难有其他学者能望其项背。如果说E.C.休斯（E.C. Hughes）和霍华德•贝克开启了对职业社会化过程予以民族志研究的传统，那么本书作者为该传统做出了重要的贡献和复兴。我相信，此书将吸引类型广泛的读者：那些研究艺术社会学、艺术经济、音乐表演和音乐史等领域的学者自不必说，还包括古典乐从业者——他们将从作者的叙述中看到自己的成长轨迹，以及渴望把孩子送上音乐道路的家长和老师们。
——保罗•狄马乔（Paul DiMaggio），美国普林斯顿大学社会学教授，曾任该系首席教授。

Popular operas in late imperial China were a major part of daily entertainment, and were also important for transmitting knowledge of Chinese culture and values. In the twentieth century, however, Chinese operas went through significant changes. During the first four decades of the 1900s, led by Xin Wutai (New Stage) of Shanghai and Yisushe of Xi’an, theaters all over China experimented with both stage and scripts to present bold new plays centering on social reform. Operas became closely intertwined with social and political issues. This trend toward “politicization” was to become the most dominant theme of Chinese opera from the 1930s to the 1970s, when ideology-laden political plays reflected a radical revolutionary agenda.
Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, this book focuses on the reformed operas staged in Shanghai and Xi’an. By presenting extensive information on both traditional/imperial China and revolutionary/Communist China, it reveals the implications of these “modern” operatic experiences and the changing features of Chinese operas throughout the past five centuries. Although the different genres of opera were watched by audiences from all walks of life, the foundations for opera’s omnipresence completely changed over time.

Although competitions in classical music have a long history, the number of contests has risen dramatically since the Second World War, all of them aiming to launch young artists' careers. This is not the symptom of marketization that it might appear to be. Despite the establishment of an international governing body, competitions are plagued by rumors of corruption, and even the most mathematically sophisticated voting system cannot quell accusations that the best talent is overlooked. Why do musicians take part? Why do audiences care so much about who wins? Performing Civility is the first book to address these questions. In this groundbreaking study, Lisa McCormick draws from firsthand observations of contests in Europe and the US, in-depth interviews with competitors, jurors and directors, as well as blog data from competition observers to argue that competitions have endured because they are not only about music, they are also about civility.
Review
"Offering a peek into the fascinating world of international classical music competitions, Lisa McCormick's Performing Civility highlights the sociological tension between combat and civility. A rich, masterful study of performing, judging, and listening. Bravo!"
Eviatar Zerubavel, Rutgers University
"Music competitions, as Lisa McCormick shows us in this very clever book, place music and civility in contradiction. This contradiction gets played out as judges, musicians and audiences are converted into publics engaged in debate over what should count as talent, beauty, and perfection. Performing Civility will be of interest to cultural sociologists, political scientists, musicians, and anyone who aspires to be a member of civil society, musically conceived."
Tia DeNora, Exeter University
Book Description
Lisa McCormick considers the history of classical music competitions and their role in society by examining their highlights and ongoing controversies. She explains why, despite a widespread belief that performances cannot be ranked, aspiring musicians still enter them, professionals still judge them and audiences still invest emotionally in the results.

Music pervades everyday life - in homes, on trains and planes, in cars and shops, at births and deaths, at weddings and war, in concert halls, clubs, stadiums, and fields. In so many ways, music marks and orchestrates the ways in which people experience the world together. What is it that makes people want to live their lives to the sound of music, and why do so many of our most private experiences and most public spectacles incorporate - or even depend on - music? 'Music and Mind in Everyday Life' uses psychology to understand musical behaviour and experience in a range of circumstances, including composing and performing, listening and persuading, and teaching and learning. Starting from 'real world' examples of musical experiences, it critically examines the ways in which psychology can explain people's diverse experience of, and engagement with music, focusing on how music is used, acquired, and made in a range of familiar musical contexts. Using a framework of real and imagined musical scenarios, the book draws on a wide range of research in the psychology of music and music education. The book is organized into three central sections. In Making Music it tackles the psychology of playing, improvising, and composing music, understood as closely related and integrated activities. In Using Music the authors address the ways in which people listen to music, manage their emotions, moods, and identities with music, and use music for therapy, persuasion and social control. In Acquiring Music they consider music in human development, and in a range of more formal and informal educational contexts. The final chapter provides an overview of the history and preoccupations of music psychology as a discipline, and concludes with some remarks on the wider significance of music psychology for an understanding of human subjectivity. Drawing on a wide range of research in music psychology and music education, the book will make fascinating reading for musicians and music scholars, as well as those in the fields of music psychology and music education.

At the turn of the twentieth century, students returning from abroad brought Beethoven to China. The composer's perseverance in the face of adversity and his musical genius resonated in a nation searching for a way forward.
At the turn of the twentieth century, students returning from abroad brought Beethoven to China. The composer's perseverance in the face of adversity and his musical genius resonated in a young nation searching for a way forward. Beethoven remained a durable part of Chinese life in the decades that followed, proving a remarkable chameleon; an icon to reformers, intellectuals, music fans and party cadres alike, playing a role in major historical events from the May Fourth Movement to the normalisation of US-China relations.

音乐在社会功能的参照派生自它的社会环境。音乐的社会事实可能对于社会现实和其他的音乐事实起作用。这种作用的发挥，分别地涉及社会历史的和社会艺术的方面。前者对于不同时期和地方的音乐活动影响最大，后者依靠更自由的艺术的方面。前者对于不同时期和地方的音乐活动影响最大，后者依靠更自由的环境的作用，它能够超越时代的空间。然而，尽管一些特别的地球上的社会确定以决定性的方式了影响了音乐的社会功能的演变和转化，但是没有证据可以证明每一个地球上的社会创造了全部的它必须或它可能必须去满足的社会生活艺术需求的所有音乐艺术（所有的作品）。不存在绝对的决定性的制约，它能根据社会内具体需要自动地产生音乐艺术的结果。只存在一种社会制约作用，其允许音乐活动在社会中表现和去实现，按照社会功能在特定的社会场景中的可能，通过对环境的“刺激”的回应或支持。然而它仍然总是被看作这些反应的将会形成的特征和品质的东西（特别在纯粹艺术的层次上）。
作为对于专门的社会功能的需要的反应，许多音乐作品获得了特征，在它们纯艺术品质上，这些品质更多地与那些社会功能相对应。以一般的方式，在它们形成和转化中，音乐的社会功能将制约音乐的表现。我们可以特别地观察到这一点，在不同的音乐体裁和各种音乐产品甚至在个别的作品中；从劳动音乐或“巫术”音乐到物质的和军事音乐，从为舞蹈、为娱乐或为音乐会的音乐到为宗教目的的音乐。

当社会学家碰到音乐家，会碰撞出什么火花呢?当犹太裔的社会学家倾听日耳曼音乐家的音乐，会是什么光景? 且来看看这本社会学大师写音乐大师的奇书：长寿却饱受流离之苦的埃利亚斯，用社会学来研究短寿却享尽身后盛名的莫扎特。 本书阐明了天才发生的内因和外因，是音乐社会学与文化社会学的重要作品。
这是一部音乐社会学的名作，是一本社会学大师写音乐大师的奇书，本书洞察莫扎特介乎天才与小丑间的悲欣人生的同时，也深入了社会学大师埃利亚斯广阔的思想世界。

《音乐社会学：音乐的理性基础与社会学基础》是引进的一本音乐社会学著作，为音乐社会学学科的奠基之作。分为七章，依次从以下四个方面进行论证：与旋律有关的和声检验、与其他地区比较的西方音乐音阶体制研究、对解决音乐体系中的多音性和多响性方案的评论、检验乐器作为音乐理性化载体的角色。

阿多诺是德国法兰克福学派的核心人物，他自幼学习音乐，熟知西方音乐史，又钻研过西方各派哲学和马克思主义的著作，形成了以社会批判理论和否定的辩证法为主线的哲学思想，并用这种哲学思想去研究20世纪欧洲的新音乐，《新音乐的哲学》就是其成果之一。
本书包括三篇具有相对独立性的论文，早的一篇是1940—1941年写成的《勋伯格与进步》，第二篇是时隔七年之后写成的《斯特拉文斯基与倒退》，后一篇是在两篇文章结集出版时（1948年）撰写的“导论”，目的是要说明为何要选择新音乐中的两个极端的代表人物作为论述的对象、概括论述新音乐总的发展趋势和特征以及《新音乐的哲学》所用的方法。
每当精神产品被遗弃并被放透到历史之中，纯粹的时间进程代替了现实事物发展的地位时，如下怀疑就得到了证实：那种精神产品并未被人们所熟悉和掌握，而且还受到了排斥。但《新音乐的哲学》所带有的锋芒却可能有益于现今的音乐状况。

Extending the inquiry of his early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the heart of traditional studies of Western music by asserting that music is not a thing, but rather an activity. In this new book, Small outlines a theory of what he terms "musicking," a verb that encompasses all musical activity from composing to performing to listening to a Walkman to singing in the shower. Using Gregory Bateson's philosophy of mind and a Geertzian thick description of a typical concert in a typical symphony hall, Small demonstrates how musicking forms a ritual through which all the participants explore and celebrate the relationships that constitute their social identity. This engaging and deftly written trip through the concert hall will have readers rethinking every aspect of their musical worlds.