Popular Music Gender And Postmodernism

Author : Neil Nehring
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761908366
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism written by Neil Nehring and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-03-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a rebuttal to academic postmodernism and its exploitation by the mass media, Popular Music, Gender, and Postmodernism emphasizes that emotion and reason are mutually interdependent. Though mistakes can occur in the conscious choice of an object at which to direct one's feelings, the preverbal appraisal of social situations that generates emotions is always perfectly rational. Nehring surveys work in literary criticism, psychology, and especially feminist philosophy that argues on this basis for the political significance of anger even prior to its full articulation. The emotional performance in popular music, he concludes, cannot be discounted on the grounds, for example, that lyrics such as Cobain's are difficult to understand.

Author : Neil Nehring
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452249695
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism written by Neil Nehring and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1997-03-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kenneth Gloag
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521151570
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism in Music written by Kenneth Gloag and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is postmodernism? How does it relate to music? This introduction clarifies the concept, providing ways of interpreting postmodern music.

Author : Sheila Whiteley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113510512X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexing the Groove written by Sheila Whiteley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135717788
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought written by Judy Lochhead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Philip Auslander
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472068685
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Glam Rock written by Philip Auslander and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the many ways glam rock paved the way for new explorations of identity in terms of gender, sexuality, and performance

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826463215
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘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 : E. Ann Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317227670
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rocking Around the Clock written by E. Ann Kaplan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David Machin
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446241343
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analysing Popular Music written by David Machin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. Like language these elements can be used to communicate complex cultural ideas, values, concepts and identities. Analysing Popular Music is a lively look at the semiotic resources found in the sounds, visuals and words that comprise the ′code book′ of popular music. It explains exactly how popular music comes to mean so much. Packed with examples, exercises and a glossary, this book provides the reader with the knowledge and skills they need to carry out their own analyses of songs, soundtracks, lyrics and album covers. Written for students with no prior musical knowledge, Analysing Popular Music is the perfect toolkit for students in sociology, media and communication studies to analyse, understand - and celebrate - popular music.

Author : Walter Everett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501345974
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex and Gender in Pop/Rock Music written by Walter Everett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.