Popular Music Studies
Hodder Arnold (Verlag)
978-0-340-76247-9 (ISBN)
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This title introduces students to significant debates in the field of popular music, offering fresh perspectives and suggesting new directions. The title covers textual analysis, place and space, production, consumption and everyday life. It outlines the history and development of popular music studies and introduces a contribution to understanding musical cultures. It also offers an international perspective on popular music, featuring writers based in North and South America, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The text features prominent writers in the field, showcasing a generation of new voices. An interdisciplinary text, it features contributions from media and cultural studies, sociology, music analysis, ethnomusciology and performance studies. "Popular Music Studies" also provides clear and concise editorial material, explaining how the chapters fit into the main debates in popular music studies.
Section 1: musical meaning and history; masculinity and migrancy under early Apartheid - gender and popular song in South Africa; analyzing popular songs; cover versions and the sound of identity in motion; in search of musical meaning - genres, categories and crossover. Section 2: audiences, consumption and everyday life; raving, not drowning - authenticity, pleasure and politics in the electronic dance music scene; the curse of fandom - insiders, outsiders and ethnography; popular music audiences and everyday life; ubiquitious listening. Section 3: production, industry and creativity; mainstreaming - hegemony, music markets and the aesthetics of the centre; value and velocity - the twelve-inch single as medium and artefact; creativity and musical experience; the politics of Calypso in a world of music industries. Section 4: place, space and power; locating Salsa; blacking Japanese, experiencing otherness from afar; India song - popular music genres since economic liberalization; rock aesthetics and the "Pop-Rockization" of popular music.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.8.2002 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 3 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 569 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
| ISBN-10 | 0-340-76247-0 / 0340762470 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-340-76247-9 / 9780340762479 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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