A popular music reader
By: edited by Richard G. King
Publisher: Pearson Learning Solutions
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9781256826347
Subjects: Popular music; Textbooks; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-406) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Taste, authenticity, and the canon; title: Me, on shuffle. True or false: the music a person listens to reveals many truths about that person  -- Chuck Klosterman; title: The rap against rockism  -- Kelefah Sanneh -- Exploring Rockism; title: Sacred cows: why I can no longer listen to Nirvana's Nevermind  -- Luke Lewis; title: Creed is good  -- Jonah Weiner; title: The Ratt trap  -- Chuck Klosterman; title: Shots at a pop canon  -- Andrew Smith -- Part II: History and style; title: Classic rock  -- Nik Cohn; title: Eight Miles High  -- Robert Palmer; title: Forty years after Woodstock, a gentler generation gap  -- Paul Taylor and Richard Morin; title: The emergence of art rock  -- John Rockwell; title: In which yet another pompous blowhard purports to possess the true meaning of punk rock  -- Lester Bangs; title: 1979: the year punk died, and was reborn  -- Sasha Frere-Jones; title: The history of rock's pasts through rock covers  -- Deena Weinstein; title: Mixed cuts: how remixes compliment and complicate  -- The Blackspot; title: Grunge's long shadow: in praise of "in-between" periods in pop history  -- Simon Reynolds -- Part III: The music business; title: Inside the Rolling Stones Inc.  -- Andy Serwer; title: What's wrong with payola?  -- Daniel Gross; title: Courtney Love does the math  -- Courtney Love; title: Will .I. Am and the science of global pop domination  -- Chris Norris; title: The song machine: the hitmakers behind Rihanna  -- John Seabrook -- Part IV: Technology; title: In the studio: the role of recording techniques in rock music  -- John Covach; title: 19 January 1967: 'Well I just had to laugh ... '  -- George Martin; title: The fuzz  -- Michael Hicks; title: The turntable as weapon: understanding the DJ battle  -- Mark Katz; title: What's an 808? A drum machine's journey from obscurity to ubiquity  -- Chris Richards; title: DJs vs. samplers  -- Suzanne McElfrish; title: The grey album: copyright law, digital sampling and mashups  -- Matthew Rimmer; title: Auto-tune: why pop music sounds perfect  -- Josh Tyrangiel; title: The song decoders  -- Rob Walker -- Part V: Lyrics; title: Rock and the facts of life  -- Charles Hamm; title: Pop music and the war: the sound of resignation  -- Jon Pareles; title: Why I gave up on hip-hop  -- Lonnae O'Neal Parker; title: Don't blame hip-hop  -- Kelefa Sanneh -- Part VI: Race; title: Race, ethnicity, expressive authenticity: can white people sing the blues?  -- Joel Rudinow; title: Race  -- Russell A. Potter; title: In pop music, the races remain far apart  -- John Rockwell; title: Guarding the borders of the hip-hop nation  -- N.R. Kleinfield -- Part VII: Women in Pop; title: Girl groups: a ballad of codependency  -- Donna Gaines; title: Introduction [to Grrrls: Viva Rock Divas]  -- Amy Raphael; title: Living to tell: Madonna's resurrection of the fleshly  -- Susan McClary; title: Why "women in rock" issues are an insult  -- Trish Bendix; title: Sisters take the rap ... but talk back  -- Helen Kolawole; title: Ladies! I can't hear you! No, really, I can't hear you! Where did all the female rappers go?  -- Jonah Weiner -- Part VIII: Censorship; title: Combating merchants of filth: the role of "Louie, Louie"  -- Dave Marsh; title: A mother takes a stand  -- Tipper Gore; title: Statement to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation  -- Dee Snider; title: Can I play with madness? Mysticism, horror, and postmodern politics  -- Robert Walser; title: Columbine: whose fault is it?-- Marilyn Manson.