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

By Ken Bielen

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
• 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
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory