Popular Music Studies

by Hesmondhalgh, David; Negus, Keith

• ISBN13: 9780340762486
• ISBN10: 0340762489
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-31
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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 outlinesthe 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.

Author Biography

David Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media and Music Industries and Director of The Media Industries Research Centre at the University of Leeds, UK.

 

Keith Negus is Professor of Musicology at Goldmsiths, University of London, UK.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Introduction: Popular music studies: meaning, power and value	1	(10)
David Hesmondhalgh
Keith Negus
Section I: Musical meaning and history	11	(74)
Editors' introduction	13	(3)
Music, masculinity and migrancy under early apartheid: gender and popular song in South Africa, c. 1948-1960	16	(17)
Christopher Ballantine
Analysing popular songs	33	(18)
Luiz Tatit
Lorraine Leu
Cover versions and the sound of identity in motion	51	(14)
Dai Griffiths
(In search of) musical meaning: genres, categories and crossover	65	(20)
David Brackett
Section II: Audiences, consumption and everyday life	85	(58)
Editors' introduction	87	(3)
Raving, not drowning: authenticity, pleasure and politics in the electronic dance music scene	90	(13)
Rupa Huq
The curse of fandom: insiders, outsiders and ethnography	103	(14)
Ian Maxwell
Popular music audiences and everyday life	117	(14)
David Hesmondhalgh
Ubiquitous listening	131	(12)
Anahid Kassabian
Section III: Production, institutions and creativity	143	(62)
Editors' introduction	145	(4)
Mainstreaming, from hegemonic centre to global networks	149	(15)
Jason Toynbee
Value and velocity: the 12-inch single as medium and artifact	164	(14)
Will Straw
Creativity and musical experience	178	(13)
Keith Negus
Michael Pickering
The politics of calypso in a world of music industries	191	(14)
Jocelyne Guilbault
Section IV: Place, space and power	205	(60)
Editors' introduction	207	(3)
Locating salsa	210	(13)
Patria Roman-Velazquez
Blacking Japanese: experiencing otherness from afar	223	(15)
Shuhei Hosokawa
India song: popular music genres since economic liberalization	238	(13)
Nabeel Zuberi
The `pop-rockization' of popular music	251	(14)
Motti Regev
Index	265