Weisbard Pop When the World Falls Apart

Music in the Shadow of Doubt
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9469-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Organized around the idea of crisis and adversity, be it personal, social, or categorical, the contributors to Pop When the World Falls Apart showcase the range of ways that pop music studies has responded to the social, political, and cultural shifts that are reshaping the world today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weisbard, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / Eric Weisbard 1

Collapsing Distance: The Love-Song of the Wanna-Be, or The Fannish Auteur / Jonathan Lethem 7

Black Rockers vs. Blackies Who Rock, or The Difference between Race and Music / Greg Tate 15

Toward an Ethics of Knowing Nothing / Alexandra T. Vazquez 27

Divided Byline: How a Student of Leslie Fiedler and a Colleague of Charles Keil Became the Ghostwriter for Everybody from Ray Charles to Cornell West / David Ritz 40

Boring and Horrifying Whiteness: The Rise and Fall of Reaganism as Prefigured by the Career Arcs of Carpenters, Lawrence Welk, and the Beach Boys in 1973–74 / Tom Smucker 47

Perfect is Dead: Karen Carpenter, Theodor Adorno, and the Radio, or If Hooks Could Kill / Eric Lott 62

Agents of Orange: Studio K and Cloud 9 / Karen Tongson 82

Belliphonic Sounds and Indoctrinated Ears: The Dynamics of Military Listening in Wartime Iraq / J. Martin Daughtry 111

Since the Flood: Scenes for the Fight for New Orleans Jazz Culture / Larry Blumenfeld 145

(Over the) Rainbow Warrior: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole and Another Kind of Somewhere / Nate Chinen 176

Travel with Me: Country Music, Race, and Remembrance / Diane Pecknold 185

The Comfort Zone: Shaping the Retro-Soul Audience / Oliver Wang 201

Within Limits: On the Greatness of Magic Slim / Carlo Rotella 230

Urban Music in the Teenage Heartland / Brian Goedde, Austin Bunn, and Elena Passarello 240

"Death to Racism and Punk Revisionism": Alice Bag's Vexing Voice and the Unspeakable Influence of Canción Ranchera on Hollywood Punk / Michelle Habell-Pallán 247

Of Wolves and Vibrancy: A Brief Explanation of the Marriage Made in Hell between Folk Music, Dead Cultures, Myth, and Highly Technical Modern Extreme Metal / Scott Seward 271

The New Market Affair: Media Pranks, the Music Industry's Last Big Gold Rush, and the Hunt for Hits in the Shenandoah Valley / Kembrew McLeod 282

All That Is Solid Melts into Schmaltz: Poptimism vs. the Guilty Displeasure / Carl Wilson 299

Contributors 313

Index 317

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Weisbard is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama. His previous books include, as editor, Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music, also published by Duke University Press.