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Nothing has been done before : seeking the new in 21st-century American popular music /

Is there such a thing today as music that's meaningfully new? In our contemporary era of remixing and retro styles, cynics and romantics alike cry "It's all been done before" while record labels and media outlets proclaim that everything is new. Coded into our daily conversations...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Loss, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Colección:Alternate takes: critical responses to popular music.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1, The past in the present Revivals are revisions : new millennial folk music rolls the dice
  • "Love and theft" : transgression and the cultural archive
  • The problem of knowing too much : meta-rock and the anxiety of influence
  • Sounds before our time : replicating the old to make the new
  • Part 2, The American wow Spectaglam! : Katy Perry and the American wow
  • The new digital empire : consumerism, technology, and the new
  • We can flux : Prince queers democracy and the new
  • Kanye's night at the museum : the iconoclast goes to work
  • Power up : persona and anonymity trouble the American wow
  • Part 3, Shouting at the hard of hearing On the good side : antiwar music in the 2000s
  • Shouting at the hard of hearing : Springsteen finds a new audience
  • Living in the interval : political hip-hop, rap, revolution, and To pimp a butterfly
  • Bodies in the river : tradition and "The body electric."