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Author: Charles Hamm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-04-27
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0521471982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on the context of popular music and its interrelationships with politics and ideology.
Author: Simon Frith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998-02-06
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0674247310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho's better? Billie Holiday or P. J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distill our most deeply held values, make meaning of our ever-changing culture. In Performing Rites, one of the most influential writers on popular music asks what we talk about when we talk about music. What's good, what's bad? What's high, what's low? Why do such distinctions matter? Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to the academic critic, Simon Frith takes these forms of engagement as his subject--and discloses their place at the very center of the aesthetics that structure our culture and color our lives. Taking up hundreds of songs and writers, Frith insists on acts of evaluation of popular music as music. Ranging through and beyond the twentieth century, Performing Rites puts the Pet Shop Boys and Puccini, rhythm and lyric, voice and technology, into a dialogue about the undeniable impact of popular aesthetics on our lives. How we nod our heads or tap our feet, grin or grimace or flip the dial; how we determine what's sublime and what's "for real"--these are part of the way we construct our social identities, and an essential response to the performance of all music. Frith argues that listening itself is a performance, both social gesture and bodily response. From how they are made to how they are received, popular songs appear here as not only meriting aesthetic judgments but also demanding them, and shaping our understanding of what all music means.
Author: International association for the study of popular music conference
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 98
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Shepherd
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2003-07-08
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780826463227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 1 provides an overview of media, industry, and technology and its relationship to popular music. In 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world, the volume explores the topic in two parts: Part I: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covers the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music and Part II: The Industry, covers all aspects of the popular music industry, such as copyright, instrumental manufacture, management and marketing, record corporations, studios, companies, and labels. Entries include bibliographies, discographies and filmographies, and an extensive index is provided.
Author: Sara Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-08-27
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1134103182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the location of memories and histories of popular music and its multiple pasts, exploring the different ‘places’ in which popular music can be situated, including the local physical site, the museum storeroom and exhibition space, and the digitized archive and display space made possible by the internet. Contributors from a broad range of disciplines such as archive studies, popular music studies, media and cultural studies, leisure and tourism, sociology, museum studies, communication studies, cultural geography, and social anthropology visit the specialized locus of popular music histories and heritage, offering diverse set of approaches. Popular music studies has increasingly engaged with popular music histories, exploring memory processes and considering identity, collective and cultural memory, and notions of popular culture’s heritage values, yet few accounts have spatially located such trends to focus on the spaces and places where we encounter and engender our relationship with popular music’s history and legacies. This book offers a timely re-evaluation of such sites, reinserting them into the narratives of popular music and offering new perspectives on their function and significance within the production of popular music heritage. Bringing together recent research based on extensive fieldwork from scholars of popular music studies, cultural sociology, and museum studies, alongside the new insights of practice-based considerations of current practitioners within the field of popular music heritage, this is the first collection to address the interdisciplinary interest in situating popular music histories, heritages, and pasts. The book will therefore appeal to a wide and growing academic readership focused on issues of heritage, cultural memory, and popular music, and provide a timely intervention in a field of study that is engaging scholars from across a broad spectrum of disciplinary backgrounds and theoretical perspectives.
Author: Rachel Rubin
Publisher: Amherst [MA] : University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigned as a broad introductory survey, and written by experts in the field, this book examines the rise of American music over the 20th century - the period in which that music came into its own and achieved unprecedented popularity. Beginning with a look at music as a business, 11 essays explore a variety of popular musical genres, including Tin Pan Alley, blues, jazz, country, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, folk, rap, and Mexican American corridos. Reading these essays, we come to see that the forms created by one group often appeal to, and are in turn influenced by, other groups - across lines of race, ethnicity, class, gender, region and age.
Author: John Shepherd
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first authoritative guide to scholarly literature on popular music of the world includes some 8,300 entries covering every non-biographical aspect of the field, including genres, the industry, social and cultural contexts, musical practices, geographical locations, and theory and method. The bibliography serves as an announcement of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Jeffrey Brabec
Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books
Published: 2011-07-18
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 0857126466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Music Industry. Millions dream of attaining glamour and wealth through music. This book reveals the secrets of the music business that have made fortunes for the superstars. A must-have for every songwriter, performer and musician.
Author: Dick Weissman
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive guide to getting started and succeeding in all facets of the music industry, from songwriting to performing to studio engineering and instrument manufacturing and repair, "The Music Business" is an indispensable reference for anyone in the music business--or anyone who hopes to be.
