Weird American music
Subtitle: case studies of Underground Resistance, BarlowGirl, Jackalope, Charles Ives, and Waffle House Music
By: Dorothea Gail
Series: American studies (Munich, Germany) -- volume 299; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 299.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9783825369569
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Music; History and criticism; Popular music; History; Miscellanea
Description: The author takes Greil Marcus's capacious category of "weirdness" in new directions to examine a tension in certain expressions of American music and music communities since the 1980s. It locates this tension in the space between the artists' striving for authenticity in the values they want to communicate on the one hand, and the demands of the marketplace on the other. The results are "weird" in both the economic and artistic sense. The book follows five different case studies: Underground Resistance, BarlowGirl, Jackalope, the latter-day reception of Charles Ives, and Waffle House Music. All have struggled against co-optation, and arguably faced defeat in their efforts to stay authentic during an era in which lifestyle and ethnicity have become commodified, and both religious and humanistic values have become products.
Notes: Habilitation--Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Underground Resistance : "The Keep Calling Me" : Ghosts, Post-Collapse Resistance, and the African American Imaginary in Detroit Techno; title: BarlowGirl : warrior virgins and the therapeutic family in Chicago Christian rock; title: Jackalope : R. Carlos Nakai, Larry Yanez, and the ironies of southwestern hybridity; title: Charles Ives : the reception of a New England hero and the classical music cult; title: Waffle House music : advertising as Southern folk art.