ABSTRACT
The study of everyday life has attracted researchers widely from across the humanities and social sciences. There is now a 40-year track record of research into music in everyday life, and it reveals use of wide-ranging investigative methodologies to uncover and assess the qualities and affordances of music as a part of the everyday. A new corpus of research on everyday musical life has begun to take shape in even more recent publications. Under description of the first paradigm, the author reflect on work from the 1980s–1990s where researchers, often from a sociological background, were concerned with realizing the emergent subject area itself by turning a spotlight onto the musical efforts and situations of ordinary people. In the second paradigm, which peaks in the first few years of the new century, significant efforts were put toward the study of everyday listening to music.
