Rock this way : cultural constructions of musical legitimacy / Mel Stanfill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanfill, Melissa, 1983-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rock music--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Cover versions--History and criticism.

Cover versions.

Remixes--History and criticism.

Remixes.

Mashups (Music)--History and criticism.

Mashups (Music).

Rock music--Parodies, imitations, etc--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023.

Summary:

Any and all songs are capable of being remixed. But not all remixes are treated equally. Rock This Way examines transformative musical works--cover songs, remixes, mash-ups, parodies, and soundalike songs--to discover what contemporary American culture sees as legitimate when it comes to making music that builds upon other songs. Through examples of how popular discussion talked about such songs between 2009 and 2018, Mel Stanfill uses a combination of discourse analysis and digital humanities methods to interrogate our broader understanding of transformative works and where they converge at the legal, economic, and cultural ownership levels. Rock This Way provides a new way of thinking about what it means to re-create and borrow music, how the racial identity of both the reusing artist and the reused artist matters, and the ways in which the law polices artists and their works. Ultimately, Stanfill demonstrates that the extent to which a work is seen as having new expression or meaning is contingent upon notions of creativity, legitimacy, and law, all of which are shaped by white supremacy.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Rock This Way, or the Shape of Musical Norms

1. Judge a Song by Its Cover: Cover Songs between Transformation and Extraction

2. Stir It Up: Remix and the Problem of Genre

3. Monstrous Mash: Mash-Ups and the Epistemology of Difference

4. Fight for Your Right to Parody: Parodies and the Cultural Politics of Kindness

5. Feels like the First Time: The Politics and Poetics of Similarity in Soundalikes

Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Ethical Transformative Musical Works

Data Appendix

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Court cases listed in "References" (page 201).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201 -221) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472903627

0472903624

OCLC:

1378392452

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access