On Record

The first comprehensive survey of critical approaches to pop music. The diversity of the essays covers sociological, feminist, semiotic and musicological points of view.

Zusammenfassung
Classic sociological analyses of 'deviance' and rebellion; studies of technology; subcultural and feminist readings, semiotic and musicological essays and close readings of stars, bands and the fans themselves by Adorno, Barthes and other well-known contributors

Inhalt
Preface PART ONE . GROUNDWORKS Listening to Popular Music ; The Dialogue of Courtship in Popular Song; The Young Audience; PART TWO . FROM SUBCULTURAL TO CULTURAL STUDIES The Golden Age; Style as Homology and Signifying Practice ; Settling Accounts with Subcultures: A Feminist Critique ; Defending Ski-Jumpers: A Critique of Theories of Youth Subcultures ; Characterizing Rock Music Culture: The Case of Heavy Metal; Is There Rock After Punk? PART THREE . THE ORGANIZATION OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems; Cycles in Symbol Production: The Case of Popular Music; Patterns of Change PART FOUR . THE CREATIVE PROCESS The Production of Success: An Antimusicology of the Pop Song; From Craft to Art: The Case of Sound Mixers and Popular Music; The Realities of Practice ; How Women Become Musicians; Sample and Hold: Pop Music in the Digital Age of Reproduction PART FIVE . MUSICOLOGY AND SEMIOTICS Start Making Sense! Musicology Wrestles with Rock; The Grain of the Voice; On Popular Music; Second Thoughts on a Rock Aesthetic: The Band; Jingle: Pepsi-Cola Hits the Spot; Listen to Me; Do-Talk and Don't-Talk: The Division of the Subject in Girl-Group Music PART SIX . MUSIC AND SEXUALITY Rock and Sexuality; Sexing Elvis; Teenage Dreams; In Defense of Disco ; Afterthoughts PART SEVEN . READING THE STARS Rock Music, the Star System, and the Rise of Consumerism; Rocket to Russia; In Praise of Kate Bush ; New Pop and Its Aftermath; Corrupting the Absolute PART EIGHT . LAST WORDS: THE FANS SPEAK Starlust

#	Onlineshop	Preis CHF	Versand CHF	Total CHF
1	Seller	0.00	0.00	0.00