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. |
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... at the Open University, this one is my “Newcastle University book.” Itisdifficult to find words to express what I owe to colleagues at the International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle since I movedthere in 1998. (“International ...
... atthe least predictable moments (including the middle of the night); atthe same time, getting on with her own work, which has probably achieved more good than I could ever claim. CHAPTER 1 Introduction “We're Low, We're Low, We're Very, ...
... at the lordling's feet will grow Into palace and church and tower — Then prostrate fall — in the rich man's hall, Andcringe at the rich man's door: We're not too low to build the wall, But too lowto treadthe floor. Chorus: We're nottoo ...
... a set of distinctions which at the same time function as constitutive relationships: hierarchiesthat are alwaystending towardsbinary simplification. Crucially, the terms that occupy the “other” positionsin this formation —the multivalent.
... atthe same timefamiliar; he takes over “theircarnivalesque right to challenge hierarchies,” and so,while subsumed by theend into “a celebration ofCook andbyextension, the BritishEmpire,” healso retains “a subversive presence.”21 This ...
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Appropriating the Phallus? | |
Memories Are Made of This | |
The Real Thing? | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
SongIndex | |