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STUDYING POPULAR MUSIC Richard Middleton

STUDYING POPULAR MUSIC By Richard Middleton

STUDYING POPULAR MUSIC by Richard Middleton

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Summary

Studying Popular Music contends that popular music can be properly understood only through interdisciplinary study methods. He demonstrates this through a critical analysis of issues from the political economy of popular music, its history and ethnography, to its aesthetics and ideology.

STUDYING POPULAR MUSIC Summary

STUDYING POPULAR MUSIC by Richard Middleton

A critical analysis of issues and approaches in a variety of areas, ranging from the political economy of popular music through its history and ethnography to its semiology, aesthetics and ideology. The book focuses on Anglo-American popular music of the last 200 years.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Charting the popular - towards a historical framework: roll over Beethoven? - sites and soundings on the music; historical map; it's all over now; popular music and mass culture - Adorno's theory; over the rainbow? - technology, politics and popular music in an era beyond mass culture. Part 2 Taking a part - towards an analytical framework: change gonna come? - popular music and musicology; I heard it through the grapevine? - popular music in culture; from me to you; popular music as message; lost in music? - pleasure, value and ideology in popular music

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GOR001599676
9780335152759
0335152759
STUDYING POPULAR MUSIC by Richard Middleton
Richard Middleton
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Open University Press
1990-04-01
336
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