| Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture Contributor(s): Swiss, Thom (Editor), Horner, Bruce (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0631212647 ISBN-13: 9780631212645 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $58.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1999 Annotation: "Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture" presents eighteen original essays by leading scholars in the field of popular music studies. Each essay - drawing widely on work in feminist, postcolonial, and cultural studies and the disciplines of musicology and literary criticism - maps the competing perspectives on one of the key terms in ongoing debates on the meaning of popular music and culture, discusses the history of continuities and conflicts in its meaning, and presents the writer's own views on its meaning and how he or she has come to adopt such a position. These essays combine to form a valuable overview of the state of popular music discourse at the end of the twentieth century. They will prove invaluable both to those new to the study of popular music and those already well-versed in popular music and cultural studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 781.64 |
| LCCN: 99024348 |
| Series: Blackwell Guides |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.46" W x 9" (0.87 lbs) 274 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Original essays by leading scholars in the field of popular music studies map the competing perspectives on the key terms of contemporary debates on popular music and culture. Each essay describes the history of continuities and conflicts in a term's meaning, situating the writer's own position on the term in that history of debate. Providing a invaluable overview of the current state of popular music discourse, the collection will be useful both to those new to the study of popular music and those already well-versed in popular music and cultural studies. |
