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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On the Subjects of Popular Music Richard Middleton. specificity masquerading as normative theory, all the more soif we follow through on Lacan's rereading of Freud, which is more concernedwith the (symbolic) phallus than the (real) penis ...
... theory of naming.Names (“the people,” “music,” “popular music”), he argues, do not acquire meaning through reference togiven properties but through a “primal baptism” followed upin a “chainof tradition.” Tothe question, what is popular ...
... theory, Ihopethat this has by now come sufficiently into view that further (no doubt tedious) scenesetting is unnecessary. I can againdo no better than quote a model, this time JohnMowitt's remarkable book, Percussion, which seemstome ...
... [theory] to work?How mustit be written when itresponds tothe callof musical practice ...?... I want tostress the importance of proliferating and diversifying music's claimson theory. Specifically, whatisgoing on in music ... mustbe ...
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Appropriating the Phallus? | |
Memories Are Made of This | |
The Real Thing? | |
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Bibliography | |
SongIndex | |