Pop music, pop culture

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 You Tube are now more import...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rojek, Chris
Resource Type: Livro
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Cambridge Polity Press c2011.
Assuntos:
Sumário:
  • Why ?pop?, not ?popular??
  • The field of pop music study
  • The urban-industrial backbeat
  • Structuralist approaches
  • Agency approaches
  • Roots
  • Corporations and independents
  • Artists, managers and audiences
  • Technology and media
  • Co-operative labour, Inc.