Weird American music : case studies of Underground Resistance, BarlowGirl, Jackalope, Charles Ives, and Waffle House Music / Dorothea Gail.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gail, Dorothea, author.

Series:

American studies (Munich, Germany) ; Volume 299.

American Studies: A Monograph Series ; Volume 299

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Music--United States--20th century--History and criticism.

Popular music--United States--History and criticism.

Folk music--United States--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 pages).

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2018]

Summary:

The author takes Greil Marcuss capacious category of weirdness in new directions to examine a tension in certain expressions of American music and music communities since the 1980s. It locates this tension in the space between the artists striving for authenticity in the values they want to communicate on the one hand, and the demands of the marketplace on the other. The results are weird in both the economic and artistic sense. The book follows five different case studies: Underground Resistance, BarlowGirl, Jackalope, the latter-day reception of Charles Ives, and Waffle House Music. All have struggled against co-optation, and arguably faced defeat in their efforts to stay authentic during an era in which lifestyle and ethnicity have become commodified, and both religious and humanistic values have become products.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-8253-7853-5