Voicing the Popular: On the Subjects of Popular MusicRoutledge, 2013 M09 5 - 352 páginas How does popular music produce its subject? How does it produce us as subjects? More specifically, how does it do this through voice--through "giving voice"? And how should we understand this subject--"the people"--that it voices into existence? Is it singular or plural? What is its history and what is its future? Voicing the Popular draws on approaches from musical interpretation, cultural history, social theory and psychoanalysis to explore key topics in the field, including race, gender, authenticity and repetition. Taking most of his examples from across the past hundred years of popular music development--but relating them to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century "pre-history"--Richard Middleton constructs an argument that relates "the popular" to the unfolding of modernity itself. Voicing the Popular renews the case for ambitious theory in musical and cultural studies, and, against the grain of much contemporary thought, insists on the progressive potential of a politics of the Low. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 80
... American ideas offreedom, and would impose their patronageon many millions overseas; mastery, liberty, and differencewere not soeasy to conjoin — a point that would shortly be given theoretical richness by the philosopher Hegel in his ...
... for anotherfifteen yearsor so;but the representational mode heard in Shield's“Traveller's Song”was already familiar, both in Britain and in America. Charles Dibdin's Example 1.7 Example 1.8 ThePadlock was the first opera to feature a.
... American theater following The Padlock, itis temptingto speculate thatthe influence inthis specific respect may have traveled westward as wellas eastward. The musical similarities between thestyleof many earlyminstrel showsongs ...
... America to modern.”1 The World's Fair was seized upon by many African Americans as an opportunity to proclaim their own part in— and claims on— this advance. Althoughmany of their leaders (e.g., the aged Frederick Douglass)were there ...
... American Dayhad been opposed by many AfricanAmericans precisely becausethey feared itwould include such“demeaning” music as the cakewalk — “race luggage,” as onereverend described it). Therewouldnothavebeen blues— but bluesballads ...
Contenido
Appropriating the Phallus? | |
Memories Are Made of This | |
The Real Thing? | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
SongIndex | |