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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... differences aretoo trivialtorequire representation. But, while such assimilation may indeed haveserved bourgeois purposes, we should becareful aboutreducing agencytoo far: W. T. Lhamon seesthe early minstrel style asmarking the ...
... difference forcedinto equivalence. Itisthis apparatus that liesatthe heartof Gay's musicalappropriations, whileatthe same time providing novel means toenergizethe flowsof bourgeois subjectivity. Little wonderthat, twohundred years ...
... difference must be refused (assimilated, smoothed over, foreclosed, repressed, projected elsewhere)in the interest of identity. Thisis astrue internally — forthe subject —as externally —forsociety. Themodern subject coming into being ...
... difference, the subject's integrity). The secretof modern subjectivity, fromthis pointof view, isthat what seems tobe inside has alreadyhappened outside —and vice versa. Andon both territories, residues are not destroyed: they are ...
... difference, yield into and become other.” Mimesis takes us into alterity, and it does this through a “chainof sympathy” — “bodily involvement... in the image,” or “sympathetic magic” even —which potentially has the effect of ...
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Appropriating the Phallus? | |
Memories Are Made of This | |
The Real Thing? | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
SongIndex | |