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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102091

Thomas Calkins , Julian Schaap , Michaël Berghman

{"title":"Bridging nodes: How race/ethnicity affects the breadth of cultural tastes","authors":"Thomas Calkins , Julian Schaap , Michaël Berghman","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102091","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Taste in music, literature, and the arts has been a rich site for studying the relationship between culture and stratification for decades. This work consistently finds that socioeconomic status shapes the volume of culture consumed, yet questions about the breadth of musical tastes remain. The effects of race/ethnicity inequality also remain understudied in most of the existing research, the effects of which often serve as controls, but are not variables of interest. To address these issues, using two years of the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (<em>n</em> <em>=</em> <em>8601</em>), we use regression analysis to differentiate between the volume of cultural items and the breadth of taste patterns. The findings suggest that the volume of cultural items selected is predicted by levels of education, but the breadth of choices is more clearly shaped by race/ethnicity differences. The taste patterns of Whites tend to have less breadth than those of Blacks or Hispanics in the US. Minorites are more likely to consume music from both non-dominant and dominant groups than Whites. These findings confirm existing qualitative work which suggests that minorities must navigate between dominant and non-dominant cultural worlds, in a way that their White counterparts do not. Following this we argue that the difference between volume and breadth warrants further quantitative examination.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 102091"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147798507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Gigging in the gig economy: The labour of live music in a platformed circuit of commerce 零工经济中的零工：在商业平台循环中现场音乐的劳动

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102095

Femke Vandenberg , Carolina Dalla Chiesa

{"title":"Gigging in the gig economy: The labour of live music in a platformed circuit of commerce","authors":"Femke Vandenberg , Carolina Dalla Chiesa","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102095","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102095","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores how musicians navigate live performance within the digital gig economy by examining creative labour on Twitch. Drawing on economic sociology, we conceptualise livestreamed performance as a distinct circuit of commerce in which artists and audiences negotiate value, intimacy, and exchange in real time. Based on a video analysis of 20 top-rated Twitch music streamers, we identify three interrelated features shaping this circuit. First, performing live on a platform intensifies the demand for relational labour. It becomes central to artistic work as a structural requirement of platform participation, where sustained audience engagement underpins monetisation, visibility, and community stability. Second, monetary transactions are framed as expressions of care and belonging rather than straightforward payment, with musicians managing relational expectations and economic tensions through platform-specific forms of <em>cultural camouflage</em>—that is, by symbolically obscuring overt market activity. Third, Twitch’s platform affordances and audience expectations restructure live musical performance by generating a demand for continuous adjustment, producing contingent cultural commodities that remain flexible in both production and monetisation. Within this market logic, uncertainty—manifest in mistakes, unfinished, and process-based work—becomes not only a creative condition but an economic imperative. By situating Twitch musicians within broader debates on platform labour and cultural production, this article shows how livestreaming extends, but also transforms, existing logics of artistic work. We argue that platforms reorganise circuits of cultural value by rendering precarity economically productive, thereby reconfiguring how artistic labour is enacted in live settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 102095"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147995209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Affordances, personal culture, and place-based variation in creativity 能力、个人文化和基于地点的创造力差异

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102089

Gordon Brett

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A graded conceptualization of taste 品味的分级概念化

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102092

Shyon Baumann , Taylor Price

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Race, nation, and commemoration: Representations of the national Juneteenth holiday in news media 种族、国家与纪念：新闻媒体对美国国庆日的表述

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102093

Kira M. Pratt

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Mapping symbolic ties in U.S. sociology: Evidence from doctoral dissertation vocabularies 绘制美国社会学中的符号关系：来自博士论文词汇的证据

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102077

Alex Xiaoqin Yan , Honglin Bao , Tom R. Leppard , Andrew P. Davis

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The conservative revolution revisited: The blending of art and commerce in four Western publishing fields 保守主义革命再现：艺术与商业在四个西方出版领域的融合

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102076

Matthias Kuppler , Henrik Fürst

{"title":"The conservative revolution revisited: The blending of art and commerce in four Western publishing fields","authors":"Matthias Kuppler , Henrik Fürst","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102076","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102076","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The publishing industry underwent a profound process of commercialization over the last 50 years. Pierre Bourdieu characterized this commercialization process as a conservative revolution that entrenched existing power relations between corporate and independent publishing houses and submitted editorial strategies to an uncompromising economic logic that is incompatible with artistic concerns. In this study, we revisit the conservative revolution thesis to examine its consequences for the reconfiguration of cultural fields and artistic practices. We draw on detailed information on <em>N</em> = 293 publishing houses and class-specific multiple correspondence analysis to examine the structure and editorial strategies of contemporary publishing fields in France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States. Our findings support but also elaborate upon the conservative revolution thesis. We document oligopolistic field structures in all four countries. A small number of media corporations controls the mass market, monopolizes access to the fields’ economic and symbolic rewards, and marginalizes independent publishers into niche markets. We do not find complete submission to an economic logic but, instead, a strategic blending of art and commerce among corporate and independent publishers. The corporations, in particular, adopted hybrid editorial strategies that combine literary and commercial genres to cement their dominance, revealing how the fields’ transformation ultimately conserved pre-existing hierarchies. These findings have broader implications for theorizing on cultural fields. They suggest that artistic and economic logics are not incompatible and that cultural producers across various field positions successfully combine artistic and commercial strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 102076"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146037836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Watching scripted fiction: Repertoires of co-viewing, time, and attention to scripted series and movies in Australia 观看有剧本的小说：澳大利亚人对有剧本的电视剧和电影的共同观看、时间和注意力

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102064

Annaliese Grant , Amanda D. Lotz

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For the greater good? The disputed prestige of private art museum founders in Brazil 为了更大的利益？巴西私人艺术博物馆创始人有争议的声望

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102078

Andrea Rozenbaum, Olav Velthuis

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Reader-character identity interdependence: An empirical investigation of congruence in identity and reading 读者-角色身份相互依赖：身份与阅读一致性的实证研究

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102075

Millicent Weber , Rachel Noorda

{"title":"Reader-character identity interdependence: An empirical investigation of congruence in identity and reading","authors":"Millicent Weber , Rachel Noorda","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102075","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102075","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the mutually constitutive relationship between identity, social participation, and reading, through a survey of 3089 readers in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia conducted in 2022. This is driven by an intersectional call to take seriously individualised experiences of identity including diverse and overlapping identities, consider multiple marginalisations, and interrogate normative modes of thinking. This connects to a commitment shared with other scholars of reading practice to undertake research that is simultaneously descriptive and critical. This forms the basis for our survey design, comprehending substantial engagement with readers’ reporting of their own reading practices. We work through multifaceted understandings of identity in our survey, and use this as the basis for examining specific patterns of identity formation through reading practice, and considering how individual experiences connect to larger systemic power dynamics. We find that all readers read for identification with the characters in the books that they read. However, readers who belong to multiply marginalised groups must go against the grain of dominant structures of representation to seek out opportunities for identification in their reading, and still also tend to read across dominant spaces of normativity, whereas readers who belong to dominant identity groups do not similarly read against the grain. Income and education complicate this by potentially dictating access to diverse books. Select readers were confronted by the survey’s interest in identity and reading; while a survey is inherently normative, interesting trends of counter-cultural pushback emerged in free-text spaces as readers navigated the limitations of the tool.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 102075"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145977563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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