Studying Popular Music

Klappentext A critical analysis of issues and approaches in a variety of areas, ranging from the political economy of popular music through its history and ethnography to its semiology, aesthetics and ideology. The book focuses on Anglo-American popular music of the last 200 years. Zusammenfassung Studying Popular Music contends that popular music can be properly understood only through interdisciplinary study methods. He demonstrates this through a critical analysis of issues from the political economy of popular music! its history and ethnography! to its aesthetics and ideology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Charting the popular - towards a historical framework: roll over Beethoven? - sites and soundings on the music; historical map; it's all over now; popular music and mass culture - Adorno's theory; over the rainbow? - technology, politics and popular music in an era beyond mass culture. Part 2 Taking a part - towards an analytical framework: change gonna come? - popular music and musicology; I heard it through the grapevine? - popular music in culture; from me to you; popular music as message; lost in music? - pleasure, value and ideology in popular music

Product details

• Authors: R Middleton, Richard Middleton, Middleton Richard
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.1990
• EAN: 9780335152759
• ISBN: 978-0-335-15275-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Media, Film & Cultural Studies; UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Media, Film & Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries