Shakin'' All Over - Popular Music and Disability

Informationen zum Autor George McKay is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Salford! UK! where he is Director of the Communication! Cultural and Media Studies Research Centre. Klappentext Offers an examination of the ways in which popular music performers have addressed disability: in their songs! in their live performances! and in various media presentations. McKay investigates such questions as how popular music works to obscure and accommodate the presence of people with disabilities in its cultural practice. He also examines how musicians have articulated the experiences of disability! or have used their cultural arena for disability advocacy purposes. Zusammenfassung A groundbreaking study of the intersection of popular music and disability

Product details

• Authors: George McKay
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2013
• EAN: 9780472052097
• ISBN: 978-0-472-05209-7
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music