On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word

by Frith,Simon

• ISBN13: 9780415053068
• ISBN10: 0415053064
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-08-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Did you know that Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote an essay on the Top 40? Simon Frith and Andrew Goodwin, both writers and teachers of popular music, have compiled the first comprehensive survey of critical approaches to pop music. Usefully divided by general theoretical category,On Record serves as a guide to the growing sophistication and shifting emphases in the field. There are classic sociological analyses of "deviance" and rebellion; studies of technology; subcultural and feminist readings, semiotic and musicological essays, and closereadings of stars, bands, and the fans themselves. Each section opens with a clear and concise introduction that places the essays in their proper context and explains the editors' choices.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART ONE GROUNDWORKS	1	(38)
Listening to Popular Music	5	(9)
David Riesman
The Dialogue of Courtship in Popular Song	14	(13)
Donald Horton
The Young Audience	27	(12)
Stuart Hall
Paddy Whannel
PART TWO FROM SUBCULTURAL TO CULTURAL STUDIES	39	(86)
The Golden Age	43	(13)
Paul Willis
Style as Homology and Signifying Practice	56	(10)
Dick Hebdige
Settling Accounts with Subcultures: A Feminist Critique	66	(15)
Angela McRobbie
Defending Ski-Jumpers: A Critique of Theories of Youth Subcultures	81	(16)
Gary Clarke
Characterizing Rock Music Culture: The Case of Heavy Metal	97	(14)
Will Straw
Is There Rock After Punk?	111	(14)
Lawrence Grossberg
PART THREE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS	125	(56)
Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems	127	(13)
Paul M. Hirsch
Cycles in Symbol Production: The Case of Popular Music	140	(20)
Richard A. Peterson
David G. Berger
Patterns of Change	160	(21)
Roger Wallis
Krister Malm
PART FOUR THE CREATIVE PROCESS	181	(94)
The Production of Success: An Antimusicology of the Pop Song	185	(22)
Antoine Hennion
From Craft to Art: The Case of Sound Mixers and Popular Music	207	(14)
Edward R. Kealy
The Realities of Practice	221	(17)
H. Stith Bennett
How Women Become Musicians	238	(20)
Mavis Bayton
Sample and Hold: Pop Music in the Digital Age of Reproduction	258	(17)
Andrew Goodwin
PART FIVE MUSICOLOGY AND SEMIOTICS	275	(94)
Start Making Sense! Musciology Wrestles with Rock	277	(16)
Susan McClary
Robert Walser
The Grain of the Voice	293	(8)
Roland Barthes
On Popular Music	301	(14)
Theodor W. Adorno
Second Thoughts on a Rock Aesthetic: The Band	315	(5)
Andrew Chester
Jingle: Pepsi-Cola Hits the Spot	320	(6)
Mark W. Booth
Listen to Me	326	(15)
Dave Laing
Do-Talk and Don't-Talk: The Division of the Subject in Girl-Group Music	341	(28)
Barbara Bradby
PART SIX MUSIC AND SEXUALITY	369	(56)
Rock and Sexuality	371	(19)
Simon Frith
Angela McRobbie
Sexing Elvis	390	(9)
Sue Wise
Teenage Dreams	399	(11)
Sheryl Garratt
In Defnse of Disco	410	(9)
Richard Dyer
Afterthoughts	419	(6)
Simon Frith
PART SEVEN READING THE STARS	425	(54)
Rock Music, the Star System, and the Rise of Consumerism	427	(14)
David Buxton
Rocket to Russia	441	(9)
Tom Carson
In Praise of Kate Bush	450	(16)
Holly Kruse
New Pop and Its Aftermath	466	(6)
Simon Reynolds
Corrupting the Absolute	472	(7)
Greil Marcus
PART EIGHT LAST WORDS: THE FANS SPEAK	479	(12)
Starlust	481	(10)
Fred Vermorel
Judy Vermorel
Acknowledgments	491