Popular Music Studies

by Hesmondhalgh, David; Negus, Keith

• ISBN13: 9780340762479
• ISBN10: 0340762470
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-24
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

The study of popular music has reached an exciting and important moment in its development. Popular Music Studies introduces students to the most significant debates in the field, offering fresh perspectives and suggesting new directions. Genuinely interdisciplinary on scope, the book outlines the history and development of popular music studies while offering and unprecedentedly international perspective on popular music, featuring writers from North and South America, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Combining insights from media and cultural studies, sociology, music analysis, ethnomusicology, and performance studies, the essays cover textual analysis, place and space, production, consumption, and everyday life.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Popular music studies: meaning, power and value	p. 1
Musical meaning and history	p. 11
Music, masculinity and migrancy under early apartheid: gender and popular song in South Africa, c. 1948-1960	p. 16
Analysing popular songs	p. 33
Cover versions and the sound of identity in motion	p. 51
(In search of) musical meaning: genres, categories and crossover	p. 65
Audiences, consumption and everyday life	p. 85
Raving, not drowning: authenticity, pleasure and politics in the electronic dance music scene	p. 90
The curse of fandom: insiders, outsiders and ethnography	p. 103
Popular music audiences and everyday life	p. 117
Ubiquitous listening	p. 131
Production, institutions and creativity	p. 143
Mainstreaming, from hegemonic centre to global networks	p. 149
Value and velocity: the 12-inch single as medium and artifact	p. 164
Creativity and musical experience	p. 178
The politics of calypso in a world of music industries	p. 191
Place, space and power	p. 205
Locating salsa	p. 210
Blacking Japanese: experiencing otherness from afar	p. 223
India song: popular music genres since economic liberalization	p. 238
The 'pop-rockization' of popular music	p. 251
Index	p. 265
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