Popular Music in Theory
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: November 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780745613185
Subjects: Contemporary popular music; Cultural studies; Light orchestral, dance & big band music; Media studies; Theory of music & musicology; Music
First sentence: This book has been written as a systematic attempt to outline, explain and provide a critical introduction to some of the major theoretical issues and debates in the study of contemporary popular music.
Description: "... Shows how popular music is created across a series of relationships that link together industry and audiences, producers and consumers. Explores the equally significant social processes that intervene between and across the production-consumption divide, examining the ways that popular music is mediated by a series of technological, cultural, historical, geographical and political factors. This broad framework provides signposts to various tracks taken by the sounds and images of popular music, and also highlights distinctive theoretical routes into the study of contemporary music."