Pop Music, Pop Culture

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7456-4264-2
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

What is happening to pop music and pop culture? Synthesizers, samplers and MDI systems have allowed anyone with basic computing skills to make music. Exchange is now automatic and weightless, with the result that the high street record store is dying. MySpace, Twitter and YouTube are now more important publicity venues for new bands than the concert tour routine. Unauthorized consumption in the form of illegal downloading has created a financial crisis in the industry. The old postwar industrial planning model of pop, which centralized control in the hands of major record corporations, and divided the market into neat segments, is dissolving in front of our eyes.

This book offers readers a comprehensive guide to understanding pop music today. It provides a clear survey of the field and a description of core concepts. The main theoretical approaches to the analysis of pop are described and critically assessed. The book includes a penetrating investigation of the revolutionary changes in the production, exchange and consumption of pop music that are currently underway.

Pop Music, Pop Culture is an accomplished, magnetically interesting guide to understanding pop music today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rojek, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Sachbuch, Musikführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Why 'Pop' Not Popular?
Part I: The Field
1: The Field of Pop Music Study
2: The Urban-Industrial Backbeat
Part II: Theoretical Perspectives
3: Structuralist Approaches
4: Agency Approaches
Part III: The Mode of Production
5. Roots
6: Corporations and Independents
7: Artists, Managers and Audiences
8: Technology and Media
Part IV: Conclusion: Co-operative Labour, Inc.
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Rojek is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Brunel University