Pop when the world falls apart
Subtitle: music in the shadow of doubt
By: [edited by] Eric Weisbard
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham and London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780822350996; 9780822351085
Subjects: History; Popular music; Music; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Eric Weisbard; title: Collapsing distance: the love-song of the wanna-be, or the fannish auteur / Jonathan Lethem; title: Black rockers vs. blackies who rock, or the difference between race and music / Greg Tate; title: Toward an ethics of knowing nothing / Alexandra T. Vazquez; title: Divided byline: how a student of Leslie Fiedler and a colleague of Charles Keil became the ghostwriter for everybody from Ray Charles to Cornel West / David Ritz; title: Boring and horrifying whiteness: the rise and fall of reaganism as prefigured by the career arcs of Carpenters, Lawrence Welk, and the Beach Boys in 1973-74 / Tom smucker; title: Perfect is dead: Theodor Adorno, Karen Carpenter, and the radio, or if hooks could kill / Eric Lott; title: Agents of orange: Studio K and Cloud 9 / Karen Tongson; title: Belliphonic sounds and indoctrinated ears: the dynamics of military listening in wartime Iraq / J. Martin Daughtry; title: Since the flood: scenes from the fight for New Orleans jazz culture / Larry Blumenfeld; title: (Over the) Rainbow warrior: Israel Kamakawiwole and another kind of somewhere / Nate Chinen; title: Travel with me: country music, race, and remembrance / Diane Pecknold; title: The comfort zone: shaping the retro-soul audience / Oliver Wang; title: Within limits: on the greatness of magic slim / Carlo Rotella; title: Urban music in the teenage heartland / Brian Boedde, Austin Bunn, and Elena Passarello; title: Death to racism and punk revisionism?: Alice Bag's vexing voice and the unspeakable influence of canción ranchera on Hollywood punk / Michelle Gabell-Pallán; title: Of wolves and vibrancy: a brief exploration of the marriage made in hell between folk music, dead cultures, myth, and highly technical modern extreme metal / Scott Seward; title: The new market affair: media pranks, the music industrys last big gold rush, and the hunt for hits in the Shenandoah valley / Kembrew Mcleod; title: All that is solid melts into schmaltz: poptimism vs. the guilty displeasure / Carl Wilson.