Jean-Marie Seca

Jean-Marie Seca

Professor of sociology in
the University of Lorraine
Doctor in social psychology of
the Paris-Ouest-Nanterre University

Electro-amplified mass music (EAMM) and social representations (SR)

We will outline the links between the styles of electro-amplified mass-music and SR theory in the creators’ and consumers’ behaviours. The musical styles and their aesthetic differentiations can be indeed conceptualized as specific SR (Moscovici, 1976, Seca, 2001, 2007, 2010). SR as musical styles are culturally shared collective matrices, giving an orientation and a structuration of the consumers’ and musicians’ practices and attitudes. We will support our demonstration with examples on emerging and underground trends in Europe. We will mainly argue that SR theory must include a creative and innovative side. Our issue is also connected with the new musicology and the postcolonial approaches.

Author

Jean-Marie Seca, Professor of sociology in the University of Lorraine is also doctor in social psychology of the Paris-Ouest-Nanterre University (1988). He had worked at the EHESS-Paris Social Psychology Research Centre, under the supervision of the Professor Serge Moscovici († 2014). From 1988 and nowadays, his has developed researches on social representations in the mass societies and on the art work minorities’ practices.