Portraying Performer Image in Record Album Cover Art

Ken Bielen argues that record album covers are used to authenticate the image of the performer in the music genre and as a tool to show transitions in image. He argues that specific music genres have unique signs that legitimate the recording artist.

List of contents

Preface
1. From the Early Idols of Popular Music to the British Invasion
2. 1960s Folk Music and the Move to Folk Rock
3. From Sweet Sixties and Seventies Soul Music to Disco on the Cover
4. Psychedelia and Beyond
5. Images of Americana
6. Singer-Songwriters and Song Interpreters

About the author

Ken Bielen holds a doctorate in American culture studies from Bowling Green State University and is the retired director of the grants office at Indiana Wesleyan University.

Summary

Ken Bielen argues that record album covers are used to authenticate the image of the performer in the music genre and as a tool to show transitions in image. He argues that specific music genres have unique signs that legitimate the recording artist.

Product details

• Authors: Ken Bielen, Bielen Ken
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781793640727
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-072-7
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: For the Record: Lexington Studies in Rock and Popular Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Rock, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Theory of music & musicology, Popular Music, Theory of music and musicology