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This comprehensive anthology of serious writings on popular music should prove to be a breakthrough in the field. Frith and Goodwin have assembled an excellent compendium of articles that examine popular music from sociological, feminist, and deconstructionist vantages (to name a few). Because they are "concerned with arguments about music and its meaning," they ignore articles on rock and pop music history as well as "judgments of personal taste," such as reviews. Instead, they examine multiple aspects of music and the music industry in eight sections, each prefaced with a fine bibliographic essay. The articles themselves, spanning four decades, are uniformly fine; remarkably, few seem "dated." Highly recommended with a caveat: this is not a "typical" piece of rock music fluff but a serious work more at home in academic libraries.
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`... the collection as a whole recognises the pleasures of pop and helps us to understand them.' - Q Magazine
`... the collection as a whole recognises the pleasures of pop and helps us to understand them. - Q Magazine
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This comprehensive anthology of serious writings on popular music should prove to be a breakthrough in the field. Frith and Goodwin have assembled an excellent compendium of articles that examine popular music from sociological, feminist, and deconstructionist vantages (to name a few). Because they are "concerned with arguments about music and its meaning," they ignore articles on rock and pop music history as well as "judgments of personal taste," such as reviews. Instead, they examine multiple aspects of music and the music industry in eight sections, each prefaced with a fine bibliographic essay. The articles themselves, spanning four decades, are uniformly fine; remarkably, few seem "dated." Highly recommended with a caveat: this is not a "typical" piece of rock music fluff but a serious work more at home in academic libraries.
- James Stephenson, Society of the Cincinnati Lib., Washington,
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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`... the collection as a whole recognises the pleasures of pop and helps us to understand them.' - Q Magazine
`... the collection as a whole recognises the pleasures of pop and helps us to understand them. - Q Magazine
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The study of popular culture-radio, movies, comics, popular music, and fiction-is a relatively new field in American social science. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
enhanced use value, music industry technology, transcultural music, heavy metal audiences, mass media gatekeepers, motorbike boys, unsated demand, roll apparatus, recording aesthetic, butch god, heavy metal culture, recording consciousness, bike culture, differential promotion, craft administration, roll culture, entrepreneurial mode, ninth wave, pop production, rock criticism, sound mixer, subcultural theory, mass media organizations, punk subculture, subcultural style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kate Bush, New York, Buddy Holly, Peggy Sue, Elvis Presley, United States, Rolling Stone, David Bowie, Dick Hebdige, The Dreaming, Led Zeppelin, Paul Willis, Resistance Through Rituals, Running Up That Hill, Simon Frith, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Roland Barthes, Sri Lanka, Boy George, Every Picture Tells, Hello Earth, Mailman Bring Me No More Blues, Phil Cohen, Wuthering Heights New!
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The study of popular culture-radio, movies, comics, popular music, and fiction-is a relatively new field in American social science. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
enhanced use value, music industry technology, transcultural music, heavy metal audiences, mass media gatekeepers, motorbike boys, unsated demand, roll apparatus, recording aesthetic, butch god, heavy metal culture, recording consciousness, bike culture, differential promotion, craft administration, roll culture, entrepreneurial mode, ninth wave, pop production, rock criticism, sound mixer, subcultural theory, mass media organizations, punk subculture, subcultural style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kate Bush, New York, Buddy Holly, Peggy Sue, Elvis Presley, United States, Rolling Stone, David Bowie, Dick Hebdige, The Dreaming, Led Zeppelin, Paul Willis, Resistance Through Rituals, Running Up That Hill, Simon Frith, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Roland Barthes, Sri Lanka, Boy George, Every Picture Tells, Hello Earth, Mailman Bring Me No More Blues, Phil Cohen, Wuthering Heights New!
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