Popular Music Gender And Postmodernism

Author : Neil Nehring
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-03-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506339207

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Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism by Neil Nehring Pdf

The migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism are traced in this book. The result of this migration is a widespread fatalism over the ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in popular music. The book synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and theory from romanticism through postmodernism; alternative music such as feminist punk and grunge; political economy, which has fueled the obsession with commercial incorporation; and subcultural sociology.

Author : Neil Nehring
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452249698

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Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism by Neil Nehring Pdf

The migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism are traced in this book. The result of this migration is a widespread fatalism over the ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in popular music. The book synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and theory from romanticism through postmodernism; alternative music such as feminist punk and grunge; political economy, which has fueled the obsession with commercial incorporation; and subcultural sociology.

Author : Sheila Whiteley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135105129

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Sexing the Groove by Sheila Whiteley Pdf

Sexing the Groove discusses these issues and many more, bringing together leading music and cultural theorists to explore the relationships between popular music, gender and sexuality. The contributors, who include Mavis Beayton, Stella Bruzzi, Sara Cohen, Sean Cubitt, Keith Negus and Will Straw, debate how popular music performers, subcultures, fans and texts construct and deconstruct `masculine' and `feminine' identities. Using a wide range of case studies, from Mick Jagger to Riot Grrrls, they demonstrate that there is nothing `natural', permanent or immovable about the regime of sexual difference which governs society and culture. Sexing the Groove also includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography for further reading and research into gender and popular music.

Author : Judy Lochhead,Joseph Auner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135717780

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Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought by Judy Lochhead,Joseph Auner Pdf

What is postmodern music and how does it differ from earlier styles, including modernist music? What roles have electronic technologies and sound production played in defining postmodern music? Has postmodern music blurred the lines between high and popular music? Addressing these and other questions, this ground-breaking collection gathers together for the first time essays on postmodernism and music written primarily by musicologists, covering a wide range of musical styles including concert music, jazz, film music, and popular music. Topics include: the importance of technology and marketing in postmodern music; the appropriation and reworking of Western music by non-Western bands; postmodern characteristics in the music of Górecki, Rochberg, Zorn, and Bolcom, as well as Björk and Wu Tang Clan; issues of music and race in such films as The Bridges of Madison County, Batman, Bullworth, and He Got Game; and comparisons of postmodern architecture to postmodern music. Also includes 20 musical examples.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780826463210

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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World by Anonim Pdf

‘This is an extraordinary achievement and it will become an absolutely vital and trusted resource for everyone working in the field of popular music studies. Even more broadly, anyone interested in popular music or popular music culture more generally will enjoy - and find many uses for - the wealth of information and insight captured in this volume.' Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The first comprehensive reference work on popular music of the world Contributors are the world's leading popular music scholars Includes extensive bibliographies, discographies, sheet music listings and filmographies. Popular music has been a major force in the world since the nineteenth century. With the advent of electronic and advanced technology it has become ubiquitous. This is the first volume in a series of encyclopedic works covering popular music of the world. Consisting of some 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world. Entries range between 250 and 5000 words, and is arranged in two Parts: Part 1: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covering the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music. 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. For more information visit the website at: www.continuumpopmusic.com

Author : John Shepherd,David Horn,Dave Laing,Paul Oliver,Peter Wicke
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847144737

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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 1 by John Shepherd,David Horn,Dave Laing,Paul Oliver,Peter Wicke Pdf

The 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 : Walter Everett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501345975

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Sex and Gender in Pop/Rock Music by Walter Everett Pdf

Following the 1960's sexual revolution, rock and pop have continued to map the societal understanding of sexuality, feminism, and gender studies. Although scholarship has well established how early rock and roll encouraged and affected issues of sex in the baby boomer generation, this book asks how subsequent pop music has maintained that tradition. The text discusses the gendered performances and biographical experiences of individual musicians, including Patti Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Etta James, and Frank Ocean, and how their invented personae contribute to musical representations of sexuality. It evaluates lyric structure and symbolic language of these artists, and overall emphasizes how pop music, while a commodity art form, reflects the diversity of human sex and gender.

Author : E. Ann Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317227670

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Rocking Around the Clock by E. Ann Kaplan Pdf

The first non-stop rock video channel was launched in the US in 1981. As a unique popular culture form, MTV warrants attention, and in this, the first study of the medium, originally published in 1987, Ann Kaplan examines the cultural context of MTV and its relationship to the history of rock music. The first part of the book focuses on MTV as a commercial institution, on the contexts of production and exhibition of videos, on their similarity to ads, and on the different perspectives of directors and viewers. Does the adoption of adolescent styles and iconography signal an open-minded acceptance of youth’s subversive stances; or does it rather suggest a cynicism by which profit has become the only value? In the second part of the book, Kaplan turns to the rock videos themselves, and from the mass of material that flows through MTV she identifies five distinct types of video: the ‘romantic’, the ‘socially conscious’, the ‘nihilistic’, the ‘classical’, and the ‘postmodern’. There are detailed analyses of certain videos; and Kaplan focuses particularly on gender issues in videos by both male and female stars. The final chapter explores the wider implications of MTV. What does the channel tell us about the state of youth culture at the time?

Author : Helen Reddington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317025115

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The Lost Women of Rock Music by Helen Reddington Pdf

In Britain during the late 1970s and early 1980s, a new phenomenon emerged, with female guitarists, bass-players, keyboard-players and drummers playing in bands. Before this time, women's presence in rock bands, with a few notable exceptions, had always been as vocalists. This sudden influx of female musicians into the male domain of rock music was brought about partly by the enabling ethic of punk rock ('anybody can do it!') and partly by the impact of the Equal Opportunities Act. But just as suddenly as the phenomenon arrived, the interest in these musicians evaporated and other priorities became important to music audiences. Helen Reddington investigates the social and commercial reasons for how these women became lost from the rock music record, and rewrites this period in history in the context of other periods when female musicians have been visible in previously male environments. Reddington draws on her own experience as bass-player in a punk band, thereby contributing a fresh perspective on the socio-political context of the punk scene and its relationship with the media. The book also features a wealth of original interview material with key protagonists, including the late John Peel, Geoff Travis, The Raincoats and the Poison Girls.

Author : Lori Burns,Melisse Lafrance
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135698744

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Disruptive Divas by Lori Burns,Melisse Lafrance Pdf

Disruptive Divas focuses on four female musicians: Tori Amos, Courtney Love, Me'Shell Ndegéocello and P. J. Harvey who have marked contemporary popular culture in unexpected ways have impelled and disturbed the boundaries of "acceptable" female musicianship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Comparative civilization
ISBN : UCSD:31822028441707

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Journal of American Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martin Iddon,Melanie L. Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781134079872

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Lady Gaga and Popular Music by Martin Iddon,Melanie L. Marshall Pdf

This book is a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary examination of the music and figure of Lady Gaga, combining approaches from scholars in cultural studies, art, fashion, and music. It represents one of the first scholarly volumes devoted to Lady Gaga, who has become, over a few short years, central to both popular (and, indeed, populist) as well as more scholarly thought in these areas and who, the contributors argue, is helping to shape—directly and indirectly—thought and culture both in the fields of the "scholarly" and the "everyday." Lady Gaga's output is firmly embedded in a self-consciously intellectual pop culture tradition, and her music videos are intertextually linked to icons of pop culture intelligentsia like Alfred Hitchcock and open to multiple interpretations. In examining her music and figure, this volume contributes both to debates on the status of intertextuality, held in tension with originality, and to debates on the figuring of the sexualized female body, and representations of disability. There is interest in these issues from a wide range of disciplines: popular musicology, film studies, queer studies, women’s studies, gender studies, disability studies, popular culture studies, and the burgeoning sub-discipline of aesthetics and philosophy of fashion.

Author : Philip Auslander
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0472068687

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Performing Glam Rock by Philip Auslander Pdf

Explores the many ways glam rock paved the way for new explorations of identity in terms of gender, sexuality, and performance

Author : Tim Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050141418

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Beginning Postmodernism by Tim Woods Pdf

The first volume of Manchester University Press' 'Beginnings' series, which is based on Peter Barry's critically aclaimed bestseller, Beginning theoryThis brilliant digest offers a clear, step-by-step introduction to postmodernism on every discourse a. . . .

Author : Susan Fast,Craig Jennex
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351677813

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Popular Music and the Politics of Hope by Susan Fast,Craig Jennex Pdf

In today’s culture, popular music is a vital site where ideas about gender and sexuality are imagined and disseminated. Popular Music and the Politics of Hope: Queer and Feminist Interventions explores what that means with a wide-ranging collection of chapters that consider the many ways in which contemporary pop music performances of gender and sexuality are politically engaged and even radical. With analyses rooted in feminist and queer thought, contributors explore music from different genres and locations, including Beyoncé’s Lemonade, A Tribe Called Red’s We Are the Halluci Nation, and celebrations of Vera Lynn’s 100th Birthday. At a bleak moment in global politics, this collection focuses on the concept of critical hope: the chapters consider making and consuming popular music as activities that encourage individuals to imagine and work toward a better, more just world. Addressing race, class, aging, disability, and colonialism along with gender and sexuality, the authors articulate the diverse ways popular music can contribute to the collective political projects of queerness and feminism. With voices from senior and emerging scholars, this volume offers a snapshot of today’s queer and feminist scholarship on popular music that is an essential read for students and scholars of music and cultural studies.