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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham ; London :
Duke University Press,
2012
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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