Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Preface to the English Edition; Introduction; 1 Lasting Things: Durkheim as a Founding Father of the Sociology of Culture; Transition Restoring the Mediators: One Method for Two Programmes; 2 Before Mediation: Social Readings of Art; 3 Sociology and the Art Object: Belief, Illusion, Artefacts; 4 The Social History of Art: Reinserting the Works into Society; 5 The New History of Art: The Social in the Art Work; Transition Linear Causes or Circular Causalities?; 6 The Baroque Case: Musical Upheavals
Transition 'Unhappy Music' Which 'Fade[s] Away as Soon as It IsBorn' ... : Painting-and-Objects versus Music-and-Society?7 'What Can You Hear?': An Ethnographic Study of a Solfège Lesson; Transition Music as a Theory of Mediation; 8 'Bach Today'; Intermezzo A Sociologist at the Zénith Concert Hall ... ; 9 Music Lovers: Taste as an Activity; Conclusion: The Representation of Music: In Praise of Musical Artifice; Epilogue 'Vor deinen Thron' ... ; Bibliography; Index