Pop when the world falls apart : music in the shadow of doubt / [edited by] Eric Weisbard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weisbard, Eric.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Social aspects--History--20th century.

Music.

Music--Social aspects--History--21st century.

Popular music--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Organized around the idea of crisis and adversity, be it personal, social, or categorical, the contributors to Pop When the World Falls Apart showcase the range of ways that pop music studies has responded to the social, political, and cultural shifts that are reshaping the world today.

Contents:

Introduction / Eric Weisbard

Collapsing distance: the love-song of the wanna-be, or the fannish auteur / Jonathan Lethem

Black rockers vs. blackies who rock, or the difference between race and music / Greg Tate

Toward an ethics of knowing nothing / Alexandra T. Vazquez

Divided byline: how a student of Leslie Fiedler and a colleague of Charles Keil became the ghostwriter for everybody from Ray Charles to Cornel West / David Ritz

Boring and horrifying whiteness: the rise and fall of reaganism as prefigured by the career arcs of Carpenters, Lawrence Welk, and the Beach Boys in 1973-74 / Tom smucker

Perfect is dead: Theodor Adorno, Karen Carpenter, and the radio, or if hooks could kill / Eric Lott

Agents of orange: Studio K and Cloud 9 / Karen Tongson

Belliphonic sounds and indoctrinated ears: the dynamics of military listening in wartime Iraq / J. Martin Daughtry

Since the flood: scenes from the fight for New Orleans jazz culture / Larry Blumenfeld

(Over the) Rainbow warrior: Israel Kamakawiwole and another kind of somewhere / Nate Chinen

Travel with me: country music, race, and remembrance / Diane Pecknold

The comfort zone: shaping the retro-soul audience / Oliver Wang

Within limits: on the greatness of magic slim / Carlo Rotella

Urban music in the teenage heartland / Brian Boedde, Austin Bunn, and Elena Passarello

Death to racism and punk revisionism?: Alice Bag's vexing voice and the unspeakable influence of canción ranchera on Hollywood punk / Michelle Gabell-Pallán

Of wolves and vibrancy: a brief exploration of the marriage made in hell between folk music, dead cultures, myth, and highly technical modern extreme metal / Scott Seward

The new market affair: media pranks, the music industrys last big gold rush, and the hunt for hits in the Shenandoah valley / Kembrew Mcleod

All that is solid melts into schmaltz: poptimism vs. the guilty displeasure / Carl Wilson.

Notes:

"An EMP Museum publication."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613523631

9780822394693

0822394693

9781280119583

1280119586

OCLC:

780318876