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The art world is the "world
World (disambiguation)

World primarily refers to the planet Earth.World may also refer to:...
" comprised of all the people involved in the production, commission, preservation, promotion, criticism
Art criticism

Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of visual art.Art critics usually criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty....
, and sale of art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
. Howard S. Becker
Howard S. Becker

Howard Saul Becker is an United States sociologist....
 describes it as "the network of people whose cooperative activity, organized via their joint knowledge of conventional means of doing things, produce(s) the kind of art works that art world is noted for" (Becker, 1982). Sarah Thornton describes it as "a loose network of overlapping subcultures held together by a belief in art.






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The art world is the "world
World (disambiguation)

World primarily refers to the planet Earth.World may also refer to:...
" comprised of all the people involved in the production, commission, preservation, promotion, criticism
Art criticism

Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of visual art.Art critics usually criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty....
, and sale of art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
. Howard S. Becker
Howard S. Becker

Howard Saul Becker is an United States sociologist....
 describes it as "the network of people whose cooperative activity, organized via their joint knowledge of conventional means of doing things, produce(s) the kind of art works that art world is noted for" (Becker, 1982). Sarah Thornton describes it as "a loose network of overlapping subcultures held together by a belief in art. They span the globe but cluster in art capitals like New York, London, Los Angeles, and Berlin." (Thornton 2008)

Music

Simon Frith
Simon Frith

Simon Frith is a former rock critic and a sociologist who specializes in popular music culture. He read Philosophy,_Politics_and_Economics at Oxford and did a doctorate in Sociology at UC Berkeley....
 (1996) describes three art worlds present in the music industry: the art music world, folk music world, and commercial music world. Timothy Taylor (2004) associates these worlds with three popular music genres: rock, rap, and pop, respectively.

Sources

Sanjeck, David. "Institutions." Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. Malden, MA
Malden, Massachusetts

Malden is a suburban city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 56,340 at the 2000 census....
: Blackwell Publishers, 1999. ISBN 0-631-21263-9 Becker, Howard S.
Howard S. Becker

Howard Saul Becker is an United States sociologist....
 Art Worlds. Berkley
Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland, California and Emeryville, California....
: University of California
University of California

The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges s...
 Press, 1982. ISBN 0-520-05218-8. Cited in Sanjeck (1999). Frith, Simon
Simon Frith

Simon Frith is a former rock critic and a sociologist who specializes in popular music culture. He read Philosophy,_Politics_and_Economics at Oxford and did a doctorate in Sociology at UC Berkeley....
. Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music. Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
: Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press is a publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in academic publishing. It was established on January 13, 1913....
, 1996. ISBN 0-674-66195-8. Cited in Taylor (2004). Taylor, Timothy D. "Bad World Music" in Washburne, Christopher J. and Derno, Maiken (eds.) (2004). Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415943663. Thornton, Sarah. Seven Days in the Art World New York: WW Norton, 2008.