392 Pages
by
Routledge
390 Pages
by
Routledge
One of the pioneers of popular music studies, Richard Middleton has made an important contribution not only to this particular field but also to the critical and cultural theory of music more generally. Sixteen of his essays, dating from the late 1970s to the present day, have been selected for this collection, most of them previously published but some of which are new. The musical topics vary... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Selected bibliography; All shook up? Innovation and continuity in Elvis Presley's vocal style; Articulating musical meaning/reconstructing musical history/locating the popular; Authorship, gender and the construction of meaning in the Eurythmics' hit recordings; The 'problem' of popular music; Were the Rockers right? Revolution and legitimation in British pop music of the 1960s; Musical belongings: Western music and its low-other; Work-in(g)-practice: configurations of the popular music intertext; Locating the people: music and the popular; Performing culture, appropriating the phallus; The real thing? The spectre of authenticity in modern musical thought; 'Last night a DJ saved my life': avians, cyborgs and gendered bodies in the era of phonographic technology; O Brother, let's go down home: loss, nostalgia and the Blues; Mum's the word: men's singing and maternal law; Global, national, local: or, a hysteric's account of negative dialectics; Jazz: music of the multitude?; Vox populi, vox dei or, imagine, I'm losing my religion (hallelujah!): musical politics after God; Index.
Biography
Richard Middleton is Emeritus Professor of Music at Newcastle University, UK
