Popular Music

Four-Volume Set Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-84920-758-4
Verlag: Blue Rose Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 1400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 2790 g

Reihe: Sage Benchmarks in Culture and Society

This collection focuses on social science perspectives of popular music since the late 1970s. Since then, social scientists like Simon Frith, Larry Grossberg, Will Straw, Paul Willis, Andy Bennett, Keith Negus, Howard Becker and Sarah Thornton have intensively examined the phenomenon of popular music from a social science and cultural studies perspective. This is part of the same move in the social and cultural sciences that has magnified Visual Culture, Celebrity Culture, Television Studies, Film Studies, Media & Communication, Fashion, and much else besides as legitimate subjects for academic enquiry. This move has become known as 'the Cultural Turn'. This collection launches from the Cultural Turn, but it will also incorporate key articles from the early social science of pop music. The aim will be to provide researchers and libraries with a four volume distillation of the best that has been thought and published in the academic study of popular music. Volume One: History and Theoretical Traditions provides the historical and theoretical anchor for the remainder of the set. Volume Two: Mode of Production brings together material that relates the production of popular music to technology, production, distribution and consumption, amongst others. Volume Three: Institutions of Popular Music examines the academic literature on the main social and 'cultural intermediaries' of popular music such as impression managers, new systems of music promotion and informal politics. Volume Four: Cultures and Subcultures of Popular Music guides the reader through music subcultures, audiences and globalization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rojek, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME 1: HISTORY AND THEORETICAL TRADITIONS
Defining the Popular
Popular - Raymond Williams
Introduction from The Troubadours - Robert Briffault
The Troubadour Tradition in Italy and England - Robert Briffault
On Popular Music - T. Adorno
Authorship - Will Straw
Towards an Aesthetics of Popular Music - S. Frith
Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music - Richard Peterson
The Music Industry and the 'Cultural Imperialism' Thesis - Dave Laing
World Beat and the Cultural Imperialism Debate - A. Goodwin and J. Gore
Disciplinary Approaches
Musicology
Analyzing Popular Music: Theory, Method and Practice - Philip Tagg
Popular Music Analysis and Musicology: Bridging the Gap - Richard Middleton
Sociology
Sociological Approaches to the Pop Music Phenomenon - Paul Hirsch
Towards a Cultural Sociology of Popular Music - Andy Bennett
Culture, Media and Communication
Systems of Articulation, Logics of Change: Communities and Scenes in Popular Music - Will Straw
Madonna: Mother of Mirrors - John Castles
Political Science
The Politics of Popular Music - Michael Birch
The Politics of Youth Culture: Some Observations on Rock and Roll in America - Lawrence Grossberg
Psychology
From the Functions of Music To Music Preferences - Thomas Schäfer and Peter Sedimier
Selective Hearing: Gender Bias in the Music Preferences of Young Adults - Brett Millar
Philosophy
Valuing and Evaluating Popular Music - Theodore Gracyzk
A Critique of Folk, Popular and 'Art' Music - Frank Howes
Cultural Geography
Recorded Music and Practices of Remembering - Ben Anderson
The Anomalies of being Faye (Wong): Gender Politics in Chinese Popular Music - Anthony Fung and Michael Curtin
VOLUME 2: TECHNOLOGY AND COPYRIGHT
Formations of Technology
Sound Studies: New Technologies and Music - Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld
Art versus Technology: The Strange Case of Popular Music - Simon Frith
The Sound of Music: Technological Rationalization and the Production of Popular Music - Paul Théberge
The Walkman Effect - Shuhei Hosokowa
Long Play: Adult-Orientated Popular Music and the Temporal Logics of the Post-War Sound Recording Industry in the USA - Keir Keighthley
Sample and Hold - A. Goodwin
Building International Empires of Sound: Concentrations of Power and Property in the 'Global' Music Market - Jack Bishop
Flexibility, Post-Fordism and the Music Industries - David Hesmondhalgh
Globalization of Mass Media Ownership: Implications and Effects - Paul Hirsch
Copyright and Illegal Downloading
Copyright and the Music Business - Simon Frith
The Effects of Piracy upon the Music Industry: A Case of Bootlegging - Lee Marshall
New Digital Technologies: Privacy/Property, Globalization and Law - Matthew David and Jameison Kirkhope
Cultures of Copying: Digital Sampling and Copyright Law - L. Bentley and B. Sherman
Sampling and Copyright - L. Bently
Reconstructing the Soul of Elvis: The Social Development and Legal Importance of Elvis Presley as Intellectual Property - David Wall
The Age of Consent: Traditional Music, Intellectual Property and Changing Attitudes in the People's Republic of China - H. Rees
VOLUME 3: REPRESENTATION AND CONSUMPTION
Representation
The Content and Validity of Music-Genre Stereotypes among College Students - Peter Rentfrow and Samuel Gosling
Music as Symbol, Music as Simulacrum: Postmodern, Pre-Modern and Modern Aesthetics in Subcultural Musics - Peter Manuel
From the Margins to the Mainstream - R. Huq
Open Letter: 'Black Music', 'Afro-American Music', and 'European Music' - Philip Tagg
'Leer-ics' and Lyrics: Teenage Impressions of Rock 'n' Roll - Lorraine Prinsky and Jill Leslie Rosenbaum
Stars
Frank Sinatra: The Popular Front and an American Icon - Gerald Meyer

Über Autor(innen)

Rojek, Chris
Chris Rojek is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Brunel University, West London. He is a prolific and influential author in the field of Celebrity, Leisure Studies and Popular Culture. In 2003 he was awarded the Allen V. Sapora prize for outstanding achievement in the field of Leisure and Tourism Studies. Besides lecturing in the UK he has given lectures on leisure in Australia, Canada, the USA and the Netherlands. In 2009 he was Hood Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He also writes on celebrity culture, neat capitalism and myths and realities of national identity. His current research is on popular music and popular culture and the meaning of the celetoid in Reality TV.