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The Institute For Music Aesthetics
The Institute for Music Aesthetics, founded in 1967 as the "Institute for Valuation Research", is an institution of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. As the only institute of its kind in the German-speaking area, it is specifically dedicated to the philosophical exploration of musical phenomena. Concept The institute promotes and conducts research and teaching in the field of music aesthetics. The field of music aesthetics concentrates on fundamental premises that underlie musical theory, practice, and the perception of music—for instance, form, structure, content, time, expression, understanding, or interpretation. Music aesthetics is conceived of as a philosophical endeavour that is both historically situated and relevant to present contexts. Typically, music aesthetics proceeds in an interdisciplinary manner, making the conceptual richness of the philosophical tradition interact with empirical approaches to music. History Kaufmann Era The Institute fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociology, sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkeit'' or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, and suffered more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder. Etymology and definitions The name "public" originates with the Latin ''wikt:publicus#Latin, publicus'' (also ''wikt:poplicus#Latin, poplicus''), from ''wikt:populus#Latin, populus'', to the Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
