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Pop when the world falls apart : music in the shadow of doubt /

Hearing Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan once said, was "like busting out of jail." But what happens when popular music isn't as simple as rock-and-roll rebellion? How does pop respond to such events as a decade-long war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina? In Pop When the World Falls Apart, a dive...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Weisbard, Eric
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2012
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Eric Weisbard
  • Collapsing distance: the love-song of the wanna-be, or the fannish auteur / Jonathan Lethem
  • Black rockers vs. blackies who rock, or the difference between race and music / Greg Tate
  • Toward an ethics of knowing nothing / Alexandra T. Vazquez
  • Divided byline: how a student of Leslie Fiedler and a colleague of Charles Keil became the ghostwriter for everybody from Ray Charles to Cornel West / David Ritz
  • Boring and horrifying whiteness: the rise and fall of reaganism as prefigured by the career arcs of Carpenters, Lawrence Welk, and the Beach Boys in 1973-74 / Tom smucker
  • Perfect is dead: Theodor Adorno, Karen Carpenter, and the radio, or if hooks could kill / Eric Lott
  • Agents of orange: Studio K and Cloud 9 / Karen Tongson
  • Belliphonic sounds and indoctrinated ears: the dynamics of military listening in wartime Iraq / J. Martin Daughtry
  • Since the flood: scenes from the fight for New Orleans jazz culture / Larry Blumenfeld
  • (Over the) Rainbow warrior: Israel Kamakawiwole and another kind of somewhere / Nate Chinen
  • Travel with me: country music, race, and remembrance / Diane Pecknold
  • The comfort zone: shaping the retro-soul audience / Oliver Wang
  • Within limits: on the greatness of magic slim / Carlo Rotella
  • Urban music in the teenage heartland / Brian Boedde, Austin Bunn, and Elena Passarello
  • Death to racism and punk revisionism?: Alice Bag's vexing voice and the unspeakable influence of canción ranchera on Hollywood punk / Michelle Gabell-Pallán
  • Of wolves and vibrancy: a brief exploration of the marriage made in hell between folk music, dead cultures, myth, and highly technical modern extreme metal / Scott Seward
  • The new market affair: media pranks, the music industrys last big gold rush, and the hunt for hits in the Shenandoah valley / Kembrew Mcleod
  • All that is solid melts into schmaltz: poptimism vs. the guilty displeasure / Carl Wilson