Pop music and easy listening
By: edited by Stan Hawkins
Series: Library of essays on popular music; Library of essays on popular music
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 523
ISBN-13: 9780754629528
Subjects: Popular music; Philosophy and aesthetics; Musikästhetik. (DE-588c)4040808-5; Social aspects; Zeithintergrund. (DE-588c)4128644-3; Popmusik. (DE-588c)4046781-8; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Aesthetics and authenticity. Sing it for me : posthuman ventriloquism in recent popular music / Joseph Auner ; Art versus technology : the strange case of popular music / Simon Frith ; Pearls and swine : the intellectuals and the mass media / Simon Frith and Jon Savage ; Remodeling Britney Spears : matters of intoxication and mediation / Stan Hawkins and John Richardson ; The production of success : an anti-musicology of the pop song / Antoine Hennion ; In excess? Body genres, "bad" music, and the judgement of audiences / Leslie M. Meier ; Hits and misses : crafting a pop single for the top-40 market in the 1960s / Robert Toft; title: Groove, sampling and production. Frank Sinatra : the television years, 1950-1960 / Albert Auster ; Mediating music : materiality and silence in Madonna's Don't tell me / Anne Danielsen and Arnt Maasø ; Sample and hold : pop music in the digital age of reproduction / Andrew Goodwin ; Caught in a whirlpool of aching sound : the production of dance music in Britain in the 1920s / Mark Hustwitt ; Spice world : constructing femininity the popular way / Dafna Lemish ; Modelling the groove : conceptual structure and popular music / Lawrence M. Zbikowski; title: Subjectivity, ethnicity and politics. Like a virgin-mother? Materialism and maternalism in the songs of Madonna / Barbara Bradby ; That ill, tight sound : telepresence and biopolitics in post-Timbaland rap production / Dale Chapman ; Sex, pulp, and critique / Eric F. Clarke and Nicola Dibben ; Pop and the nation-state : towards a theorisation / Martin Cloonan ; Believe? Vocoders, digitalised female identity and camp / Kay Dickinson ; Music and Canadian nationhood post 9/11 : an analysis of Music without borders : live / Susan Fast and Karen Pegley ; Black pop songwriting 1963-1966 : an analysis of U.S. top forty hits by Cooke, Mayfield, Stevenson, Robinson, and Holland-Dozier-Holland / John Fitzgerald ; A fifth of Beethoven : disco, classical music, and the politics of inclusion / Ken McLeod ; The digital won't let me go : construction of the virtual and the real in Gorillaz' 'Clint Eastwood' / John Richardson ; Navigating the "channel" : recent scholarship on African-American popular music / David Sanjek ; Prince as queer poststructuralist / Robert Walser.