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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... difference.52 Animportant issue throughoutthisbook is the question: what might music be like “after representation”?I willnot answer the question, atleast notdirectly; but Istrongly suspect that thekey liesin the territory figured in ...
... difference: man hasit, woman is it. At this point in my argument, theinterest of this formulation liesinthewaythatthis structure ofpropertyandbeing — production/reproduction, penetration/penetrated, active/passive, capital/ labor ...
... (inthe field of sexual difference), or indeed of“white man”(in thefield of race). This iswhy,just as(in another notorious Lacanianism) “Woman is the symptom ofman,” so popular music isthe symptom ofits Other, and the moment.
... differences of course, as well as certain commonalities. However, such sightings taken as a whole inevitably tendtofreeze the action, silencingthe protagonists, or at best translating their voices into words on a page.Thisis where songs ...
... difference, not least on the AfricanAmerican side, and this variously affected the range of genres as thesewere aligned with distinct social groups and culturalandpolitical positions. And third,this generic network was significantly ...
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Appropriating the Phallus? | |
Memories Are Made of This | |
The Real Thing? | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
SongIndex | |