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A critical analysis of issues and approaches in a variety of areas, ranging from the political economy of popular music through its history and ethnography to its semiology, aesthetics and ideology. The book focuses on Anglo-American popular music of the last 200 years.



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Part 1 Charting the popular - towards a historical framework: roll over Beethoven? - sites and soundings on the music; historical map; it's all over now; popular music and mass culture - Adorno's theory; over the rainbow? - technology, politics and popular music in an era beyond mass culture. Part 2 Taking a part - towards an analytical framework: change gonna come? - popular music and musicology; I heard it through the grapevine? - popular music in culture; from me to you; popular music as message; lost in music? - pleasure, value and ideology in popular music

STUDYING POPULAR MUSIC

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      Publisher: Open University Press
      Publication Date: 16/04/1990
      ISBN13: 9780335152759, 978-0335152759
      ISBN10: 335152759
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A critical analysis of issues and approaches in a variety of areas, ranging from the political economy of popular music through its history and ethnography to its semiology, aesthetics and ideology. The book focuses on Anglo-American popular music of the last 200 years.



      Table of Contents

      Part 1 Charting the popular - towards a historical framework: roll over Beethoven? - sites and soundings on the music; historical map; it's all over now; popular music and mass culture - Adorno's theory; over the rainbow? - technology, politics and popular music in an era beyond mass culture. Part 2 Taking a part - towards an analytical framework: change gonna come? - popular music and musicology; I heard it through the grapevine? - popular music in culture; from me to you; popular music as message; lost in music? - pleasure, value and ideology in popular music

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