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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... that the lyrical, balanced shapes of the melody — typical of song patterns in the emergent bourgeois culture — are broken up rhythmically and energizedby sloganlike repetitions (“we're low, we're low”), internal rhymeand variation, and ...
... that the “Song of the Lower Classes” airs itsvoice. What was developing was anew typeof musical semiotics of the social, a new mode of musical representation, replacing even as,to some extent,it drew upon, the older, moreabstract codes ...
... that the liberal bourgeoisieof Europe, watching as the events of the French Revolution unfolded, hearing of theworld's first black anticolonial revolution (ledby Toussaint L'Ouverture in Haiti in 1791), reading Mary Wollstonecrafts's ...
... that the representationsof the lower characters inOmaiare more interesting thanthoseof their masters;nor that the musical styles chosenfor examples of British lowlife and for foreign others tend to run together. Inthe songs of acomic ...
... thatthe influence inthis specific respect may have traveled westward as wellas eastward. The musical similarities between thestyleof many earlyminstrel showsongs andthatof contemporary “Scots” and, especially, “Irish” songs has often ...
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Appropriating the Phallus? | |
Memories Are Made of This | |
The Real Thing? | |
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Bibliography | |
SongIndex | |