Description
Book SynopsisThis extensively revised and expanded fifth edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meaning of popular music, and the debates that surround popular culture and popular music.
Reflecting the continued proliferation of popular music studies, the new music industry in a digital age, and the emergence of new stars, this new edition has been reorganized and extensively updated throughout, making for a more coherent and sequenced coverage of the field. These updates include:
- two new chapters entitled The Real Thing': Authenticity, covers and the canon and Time Will Pass You By': Histories and popular memory
- new case studies on artists including The Rolling Stones, Lorde, One Direction and Taylor Swift
- further examples of musical texts, genres, and performers throughout including additional coverage of Electronic Dance M
Table of Contents
Introduction: ‘What’s Goin' On?’: Popular music culture 1. ‘Every 1’s a Winner’: The music industry and the record companies 2. ‘Pump up the Volume’: Music and technology 3. ‘I’m Just a Singer’: Making music, the rock musician and the success continuum 4. ‘So You Want To Be a Rock’n’Roll Star?’: Auteurs and stars 5. ‘Message Understood’: Musical texts 6. ‘The Real Thing’: Authenticity, covers and the canon 7. ‘It’s Still Rock’n’Roll To Me’: Genre 8. ‘Shop around’: Marketing and mediation 9. ‘U Got the Look’: From film and television to YouTube 10. ‘On the Cover of The Rolling Stone’: The music press. 11. ‘My Generation’: Consumption, identity and fandom 12. ‘Sound of Our Town’: Subcultures, sounds and scenes 13. ‘Revolution’: Social change, politics and conscience rock 14. ‘Pushin too Hard’: Moral panic, state regulation and censorship 15. ‘We Are the world’: Globalization and State music policy 16. ‘Time Will Pass You By’: Histories and popular memory. Conclusion: ‘Wrap it up’: Making music, making meaning Appendix 1: Chapter song titles Appendix 2: Musical analysis Appendix 3: Popular Music Timeline
