Title: Popular music /
Authors: Rojek, Chris.
Publisher: SAGE,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Popular music History and criticism; Popular music Social aspects.; Popular music Psychological aspects.; Music and technology.
Contents: v. 1. History and theoretical traditions. Defining the popular. A vocabulary of culture and society : popular / Raymond Williams ; Introduction from the troubadours / Robert S. Briffault and Lawrence F. Koons ; On popular music : material and text / Theodor W. Adorno ; Authorship / Will Straw ; Towards and aesthetic of popular music / Simon Frith ; Why 1955? Explaining the advent of rock music / Richard A. Peterson ; The music industry and the 'cultural imperialism' thesis / Dave Laing ; Wold beat and the cultural imperialism debate / Andrew Goodwin and Joe Gore -- Disciplinary approaches. Musicology. Analysing popular music : theory, method and practice / Philip Tagg ; Popular music analysis and musicology : bridging the gap / Richard Middleton ; Sociology. Sociological approaches to the pop music phenomenon / Paul M. Hirsch ; Towards a cultural sociology of popular music / Andy Bennett ; Culture, media and communication. Systems of articulation, logics of change : communities and scenes in popular music / Will Straw ; Madonna : mother of mirrors / John Castles ; Political science. The politics of popular music / Michael Birch ; The politics of youth culture : some observations on rock and roll in American culture / Lawrence Grossberg ; Psychology. From the functions of music to music preference / Thomas Schäfer and Peter Sedlmeier ; Selective hearing : gender bias in the music preferences of young adults / Brett Millar ; Philosophy. Valuing and evaluating popular music / Theodore Gracyk ; A critique of folk, popular and 'art' music / Frank Howes ; Cultural geography. Recorded music and practices of remembering / Ben Anderson ; The anomalies of being Faye (Wong) : gender politics in Chinese popular music / Anthony Fung and Michael Curtin --