Defining the Discographic Self

Desert Island Discs in Context
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-726617-5
Verlag: Sydney University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 211, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Proceedings of the British Academy

The radio programme Desert Island Discs has run almost continuously since 1942, and represents a unique record of the changing place of music in British society. In 2011, recognising its iconic status, the BBC created an online archive that includes podcasts of all programmes from 1976 on, and many from earlier years. Based on this and extensive documentary evidence, Defining the Discographic Self: Desert Island Discs in Context for the
first time brings together musicologists, sociologists, and media scholars in one volume. They reflect on the programme's significance, its position within the BBC and Britain's continually evolving media, and its relationship to other comparable programmes. Of particular interest are the meanings attributed to music in the
programme by both castaways and interviewers, the ways in which music is invoked in the public presentation of self, the incorporation of music within personal narratives, and changes in musical tastes during the seven decades spanned by the programme. Scholarly chapters are complemented by former castaways' accounts of their appearances, which give fascinating insiders' views into how the programme is made and how its guests prepare for their involvement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Julie

Cook, Nicholas

Cottrell, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Über Autor(innen)

Julie Brown is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London

Nicholas Cook is 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy

Stephen Cottrell is Professor of Music at City, University of London