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Popular music and the politics of novelty / Pete Dale.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3918.P67 D35 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dale, Pete, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Political aspects.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--Social aspects.
- Popular music--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 225 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
- Summary:
- Popular music, today, has supposedly collapsed into a 'retromania' which, according to some, has left it in a political and aesthetic rut. When if ever, though, did the political engagement kindled by popular music amount to more than it does today? 'The sixties'? The punk explosion of the late 1970s? This book challenges a predominant chauvinism for pop's supposed halcyon days and argues that popular music is still being used to promote political causes, raise funds for the left and express dissent. How politically powerful can popular music be, though, if it lacks aesthetic novelty? Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1899 and all that
- If you don't care to remember 'the sixties', you probably weren't there
- 1977, year zero (ish)
- The postmodern turn, turn, turn
- Badiou and the popular event
- What's left for the future of pop?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781501307041
- 1501307045
- 9781501307034
- 1501307037
- OCLC:
- 908262356
- Publisher Number:
- 99966323660
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