An Adjusted Framework: Approaching Music with a Plurality of Practices in Mind

Schwegler, Guy (2025):

In: Rainer Diaz-Bone & Andreas Lehmann-Wermser (eds.), Perspectives on Music after Bourdieu. Contributions from Music Education and Sociology of Music. Cham: Springer, pp. 211-243.

Abstract. The contribution takes up Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptual framework of three parts—habitus, field, and capital—and adjusts it. Habitus as the first part of the framework is adapted to the perspective of a plural habitus, introduced by Bernard Lahire. This perspective highlights a heterogeneous socialization process of individuals. From there, consequence for the other two parts of the framework are drawn and adjustments are proposed. Field analysis is already in Bourdieu’s thinking open to multiplicities and intersections. However, the concept of fields itself becomes more and more problematic when a plural habitus is considered. For the third part of the framework, new questions of worth arise that the limited, structural principles of capital cannot explain easily. The adjustment presented here realign the framework as a thinking and research tool to start with a plurality in mind when analyzing cultural production. These arguments are introduced alongside the empirical case of experimental electronic music. In this subsector of the field of music, scientific practices seem to be present within the work of musicians, most apparent in references to theories from the social science and humanities. Such a presence illustrates new values for musical production, distribution, and consumption. The adjusted framework enables an appropriate analysis of the different practices and the new values.

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GdL (23 novembre 2025). An Adjusted Framework: Approaching Music with a Plurality of Practices in Mind. Économie des conventions. Consulté le 9 février 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/156v2