Authorship roles in popular music
Subtitle: issues and debates
By: Ron Moy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781138780675; 9781138780682
Subjects: Authorship; Philosophy; Writing and publishing; Popular music; History and criticism
Description: Includes discussions of case studies such as Procol Harum's "A whiter shade of pale" court ruling and how performers assume authorship; Gender, genre, critical status, degrees of autonomy and the careers of Kate Bush, Madonna, Bjork, and Beyoncé; Phil Spector, George Martin, Daft Punk and how record producers assume authorial status.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The studio/label as auteur; title: Gender and degrees of popular music authorship; title: The singular and collective : the writer as auteur; title: The interpreter as auteur; title: The producer/re-mixer as auteur; title: The zeitgeist as auteur : contexts, scenes & technologies; title: Coda. The seeker and the sought.