Understanding Popular Music Culture

by Shuker; Roy

• ISBN13: 9780415419062
• ISBN10: 0415419069
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-11-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This extensively revised new edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meaning of popular music and examines the difficulties and debates which surround the analysis of popular culture and popular music.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: 'What's Goin' On?'	p. 1
Studying popular music culture
'Every I's a winner'	p. 13
Music as a cultural industry
'Pump Up the Volume'	p. 33
Music and technology
'I'm Just a Singer'	p. 47
Making music and the success continuum
'So You Want to be a Rock 'n' Roll Star'	p. 67
Auteurs and stars
'Message Understood?'	p. 93
Musical texts
'It's Still Rock and Roll to Me'	p. 119
Genre, covers and the canon
'Shop Around'	p. 137
Retail, radio and the charts
'U Got the Look'	p. 147
Film, television and MTV
'On the Cover of The Rolling Stone'	p. 161
The music press
'My Generation'	p. 173
Audiences, fans and collectors
'Sound of our Town'	p. 191
Subcultures, sounds and scenes
'We Are the World'	p. 205
State music policy, globalization, and national identity
'Pushin' Too Hard'	p. 225
Moral panics
'Revolution'	p. 241
Social change, conscience rock and identities
Conclusion: 'Wrap it Up'	p. 257
Popular music and cultural meaning
The song titles	p. 259
Musical analysis	p. 261
The album canon	p. 265
Discography	p. 267
Further resources and bibliography	p. 273
Index	p. 307
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