The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music
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- English
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The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music
About this book
"The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music is a comprehensive, smartly-conceived volume that can take its place as the new standard reference in popular music. The editors have shown great care in covering classic debates while moving the field into new, exciting areas of scholarship. International in its focus and pleasantly wide-ranging across historical periods, the Handbook is accessible to students but full of material of interest to those teaching and researching in the field."
- Will Straw, McGill University
"Celebrating the maturation of popular music studies and recognizing the immense changes that have recently taken place in the conditions of popular music production, The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music features contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field. Every chapter is well defined and to the point, with bibliographies that capture the history of the field. Authoritative, expertly organized and absolutely up-to-date, this collection will instantly become the backbone of teaching and research across the Anglophone world and is certain to be cited for years to come."
- Barry Shank, author of ?The Political Force of Musical Beauty? (2014)
The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music provides a highly comprehensive and accessible summary of the key aspects of popular music studies. The text is divided into 9 sections:
- Theory and Method
- The Business of Popular Music
- Popular Music History
- The Global and the Local
- The Star System
- Body and Identity
- Media
- Technology
- Digital Economies
Each section has been chosen to reflect both established aspects of popular music studies as well as more recently emerging sub-fields. The handbook constitutes a timely and important contribution to popular music studies during a significant period of theoretical and empirical growth and innovation in the field.
This is a benchmark work which will be essential reading for educators and students in popular music studies, musicology, cultural studies, media studies and cultural sociology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Editors and Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Theory and Method
- 1 The Many Worlds of Popular Music: Ethnomusicological Approaches
- 2 Notes on Sociological Theory and Popular Music Studies
- 3 Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards: Mixing Pop, Politics and Cultural Studies
- 4 (Re)generations of Popular Musicology
- 5 Archival Research and the Expansion of Popular Music History
- Part II The Business of Popular Music
- 6 Power, Production and the Pop Process
- 7 Intermediaries and Intermediation
- 8 Popular Musical Labor in North America
- 9 Music in Advertising in the US: History and Issues
- Part III Popular Music History
- 10 Grinding Out Hits at the Song Factory
- 11 Popular Music Genres: Aesthetics, Commerce and Identity
- 12 Live Music History
- Part IV The Global and the Local
- 13 African, African American, Middle Eastern and French Hip Hop
- 14 Liminal Being: Electronic Dance Music Cultures, Ritualization and the Case of Psytrance
- 15 Everything Louder than Everyone Else: The Origins and Persistence of Heavy Metal Music and Its Global Cultural Impact
- 16 Punk Rock, Hardcore and Globalization
- Part V The Star System
- 17 Rock Stars as Icons1
- 18 Everybody's in Show Biz: Performing Star Identity in Popular Music
- 19 Midnight Ramblers and Material Girls: Gender and Stardom in Rock and Pop
- 20 Dark Cosmos: Making Race, Shaping Stardom
- Part VI Body and Identity
- 21 Blurred Lines, Gender and Popular Music
- 22 Popular Music, Race and Identity
- 23 Dancing the Popular: The Expressive Interface of Bodies, Sound and Motion
- 24 Shaping The Past of Popular Music: Memory, Forgetting and Documenting
- Part VII Media
- 25 In Print and On Screen: The Changing Character of Popular Music Journalism
- 26 Sight and Sound in Concert? The Interrelationship Between Music and Television
- 27 Viewing With Your Ears, Listening With Your Eyes: Syncing Popular Music and Cinema
- 28 Beyond Napster: Popular Music and the Normal Internet
- Part VIII Technology
- 29 Phonography and the Recording in Popular Music
- 30 Ghosts of Electricity: Amplification
- 31 Ubiquitous Musics: Technology, Listening and Subjectivity
- Part IX Digital Economies
- 32 Modes of Production: The Value of Modal Analysis for Popular Music Studies
- 33 Music, Copies and Essences
- 34 Authorship, Ownership and Musical Appropriation
- 35 Music Cartels and the Dematerialization of Power1
- Index