Pierre Bourdieu – About Television
Posted in quiet readings, tagged media, quiet readings, TV on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
This book is not explicitly about music or sound art, nevertheless it is a thoughtful examination under which circumstances the media is working. Though published in 1996 and based on two programmes Bourdieu produced for a private TV channel of France, the transcriptions of his TV-lectures are by no means dated but even more relevant [...]
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