Strange Music of Social Life

Michael Mayerfeld Bell is Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He is the author or editor of seven books, three of which have won national awards. He is also a composer of grassroots and classical music and is a mandolinist, guitarist, and singer. Ann Goetting is Professor of Sociology at Western Kentucky University. She is the author or editor of four previous books, including (with Sarah Fenstermaker) Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology and (with Gary Paul Green) Mobilizing Communities: Asset Building as a Community Development Strategy (both Temple).

• 1. Strange Music: Notes Toward a Dialogic Sociology 2. Sociologizing the Strange: A Strong Programme for a Weak Sociology 3. Stranger Danger: Response to Michael Mayerfeld Bell's "Strange Music" 4. A Sisyphean Process? Dialogue on Dialogical Sociology 5. Growing a Chorus 6. Why I Like Contemporary Classical Music and Contemporary Sociological Theory: 7. Response to Michael Bell: Reflections Based on Perspectives from Popular Culture, Fine Arts, and Globalization 8. A Three Part Recension 9. Strange to the Structure: A Dialogue on "Strange Music," Performance Studies, Jazz Trumpet, and Billie Holiday 10. Re-Creating Music in the Moment: Reflections on Michael Bell's "Strange Music" and on Musical Performance 11. If You Have All the Answers You Don't Have All the Questions