Description
Book SynopsisAny 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.
Trade ReviewRock This Way provides one of the best and most nuanced discussions of the ethics of creativity I have seen in relation to popular music. The choice of examples is rich and interesting; the lively language is clear, fluent and funny; and the interdisciplinary approach is skillful. This is a fantastic book." - Larisa Kingston Mann, Temple University
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Rock This Way, or The Shape of Musical Norms
- Chapter 1. Judge a Song by its Cover: Cover Songs Between Transformation and Extraction
- Chapter 2. Stir It Up: Remix and the Problem of Genre
- Chapter 3. Monstrous Mash: Mashups and the Epistemology of Difference
- Chapter 4. Fight for Your Right to Parody: Parodies and the Cultural Politics of Kindness
- Chapter 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
- References
