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Roadrunner / Joshua Clover.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.R5572 C56 2021
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LIBRA ML420.R5572 C56 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clover, Joshua, author.
- Series:
- Singles (Duke University Press)
- Singles
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Richman, Jonathan (Vocalist).
- Automobiles.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Richman, Jonathan (Vocalist)--Criticism and interpretation.
- Richman, Jonathan.
- Richman, Jonathan (Vocalist). Roadrunner (Song).
- Modern Lovers (Musical group).
- Rock music--United States--History and criticism.
- Rock music.
- Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Automobiles--Songs and music--History and criticism.
- Automobiles--Social aspects--United States.
- Automobiles--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Notated music.
- Physical Description:
- 132 pages : illustration ; 18 x 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' infinitely open song 'Roadrunner' tells us about the nature of rock, the history of pop, the fate of capitalism, the trajectory of the United States, and the experience of driving around at night. Locating rock & roll at the intersection of radio and the highway, the song sees its basis in car culture and in industrial production more broadly. If rock & roll is the last great invention of America's Industrial Revolution, 'Roadrunner' is the song of that revolution's exhaustion. It offers us a vision of pure circulation, going round and round. Following this logic, the book moves backward to a shared origin story for rock and 'Roadrunner,' then forward to the song's inheritors at an ever more global level, featuring chapters on Chuck Berry, Cornershop, and MIA, before returning to the title track. This ensemble conjures circulation in all its forms: of commodities, financial crises, global pandemics, the techniques of political insurgency, migrant populations, and the accompanying circulation of sounds, songs, musics, and cultures--making along the way an argument about the politics of pop music writ large"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Rock & roll radio
- Faster miles an hour
- That highway wound
- The Main Streets and the cinema aisles
- World runner
- In love with the modern world, 1972.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-126) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Clover, Joshua. Roadrunner.
- Electronic version: Clover, Joshua. Roadrunner.
- ISBN:
- 9781478013471
- 1478013478
- 9781478014393
- 1478014393
- OCLC:
- 1204259465
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