Understanding popular music culture
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| Resource Type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon
Routledge
2016.
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| Edition: | Fifth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: 'What's going on?' : Popular music culture
- 'Every 1's a winner' : the music industry and the record companies
- 'Pump up the volume' : music and technology
- 'I'm just a singer' : making music, the rock musician and the success continuum
- 'So you want to be a rock'n'roll star?' : auteurs and stars
- 'Message understood' : musical texts
- 'The real thing' : authenticity, covers and the canon
- 'It's still rock'n'roll to me' : genre
- 'Shop around' : marketing and mediation
- 'U got the look' : from film and television to YouTube
- 'On the cover of the Rolling Stone' : the music press
- 'My generation' : consumption, identity and fandom
- 'Sound of our town' : subcultures, sounds and scenes
- 'Revolution' : social change, politics and conscience rock
- 'Pushin too hard' : moral panic, state regulation and censorship
- 'We are the world' : globalization and state music policy
- 'Time will pass you by' : histories and popular memory
- Conclusion: 'Wrap it up' : making music, making meaning.