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Informationen zum Autor Chris Rojek is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Brunel University! West London. He is a prolific and influential author in the field of Celebrity! Leisure Studies and Popular Culture. In 2003 he was awarded the Allen V. Sapora prize for outstanding achievement in the field of Leisure and Tourism Studies. Besides lecturing in the UK he has given lectures on leisure in Australia! Canada! the USA and the Netherlands. In 2009 he was Hood Fellow at the University of Auckland! New Zealand. He also writes on celebrity culture! neat capitalism and myths and realities of national identity. His current research is on popular music and popular culture and the meaning of the celetoid in Reality TV. Klappentext This collection focuses on social science perspectives of popular music since the late 1970s. Since then, social scientists like Simon Frith, Larry Grossberg, Will Straw, Paul Willis, Andy Bennett, Keith Negus, Howard Becker and Sarah Thornton have intensively examined the phenomenon of popular music from a social science and cultural studies perspective. This is part of the same move in the social and cultural sciences that has magnified Visual Culture, Celebrity Culture, Television Studies, Film Studies, Media & Communication, Fashion, and much else besides as legitimate subjects for academic enquiry. This move has become known as 'the Cultural Turn'. This collection launches from the Cultural Turn, but it will also incorporate key articles from the early social science of pop music. The aim will be to provide researchers and libraries with a four volume distillation of the best that has been thought and published in the academic study of popular music. Volume One: History and Theoretical Traditions provides the historical and theoretical anchor for the remainder of the set. Volume Two: Mode of Production brings together material that relates the production of popular music to technology, production, distribution and consumption, amongst others. Volume Three: Institutions of Popular Music examines the academic literature on the main social and 'cultural intermediaries' of popular music such as impression managers, new systems of music promotion and informal politics. Volume Four: Cultures and Subcultures of Popular Music guides the reader through music subcultures, audiences and globalization. Zusammenfassung Focusing on social science perspectives on popular music since the late 1970s with 'the Cultural Turn', this set covers the work of Simon Frith, Larry Grossberg, Andy Bennett, Keith Negus and many more, and provides a distillation of the best academic work published on popular music. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME 1: HISTORY AND THEORETICAL TRADITIONS Defining the Popular Popular - Raymond Williams Introduction from The Troubadours - Robert Briffault The Troubadour Tradition in Italy and England - Robert Briffault On Popular Music - T. Adorno Authorship - Will Straw Towards an Aesthetics of Popular Music - S. Frith Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music - Richard Peterson The Music Industry and the ¿Cultural Imperialism¿ Thesis - Dave Laing World Beat and the Cultural Imperialism Debate - A. Goodwin and J. Gore Disciplinary Approaches Musicology Analyzing Popular Music: Theory, Method and Practice - Philip Tagg Popular Music Analysis and Musicology: Bridging the Gap - Richard Middleton Sociology Sociological Approaches to the Pop Music Phenomenon - Paul Hirsch Towards a Cultural Sociology of Popular Music - Andy Bennett Culture, Media and Communication Systems of Articulation, Logics of Change: Communities and Scenes in Popular Music - Will Straw Madonna: Mother of Mirrors - John Castles Political Science The Politics of Popular Music - Michael Birch
