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9780340762479

Popular Music Studies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780340762479

  • ISBN10:

    0340762470

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-10-24
  • Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
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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 valuep. 1
Musical meaning and historyp. 11
Music, masculinity and migrancy under early apartheid: gender and popular song in South Africa, c. 1948-1960p. 16
Analysing popular songsp. 33
Cover versions and the sound of identity in motionp. 51
(In search of) musical meaning: genres, categories and crossoverp. 65
Audiences, consumption and everyday lifep. 85
Raving, not drowning: authenticity, pleasure and politics in the electronic dance music scenep. 90
The curse of fandom: insiders, outsiders and ethnographyp. 103
Popular music audiences and everyday lifep. 117
Ubiquitous listeningp. 131
Production, institutions and creativityp. 143
Mainstreaming, from hegemonic centre to global networksp. 149
Value and velocity: the 12-inch single as medium and artifactp. 164
Creativity and musical experiencep. 178
The politics of calypso in a world of music industriesp. 191
Place, space and powerp. 205
Locating salsap. 210
Blacking Japanese: experiencing otherness from afarp. 223
India song: popular music genres since economic liberalizationp. 238
The 'pop-rockization' of popular musicp. 251
Indexp. 265
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