Pop music and the press
By: edited by Steve Jones
Contributors: Jones, Steve, 1961-
Series: Sound matters
Publisher: Temple University Press; Temple Univ Pr
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Musical criticism; Popular music -- History and criticism; Mass media and music; Popular culture -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The intro, popular music, media, and the written word / Steve Jones; title: Re-viewing rock writing, narratives of popular music criticism / Steve Jones and Kevin Featherly; title: Brit crit, turning points in British rock criticism, 1960-1990 / Gestur Gudmundsson, Ulf Lindberg, Morten Michelsen, and Hans Weisethaunet; title: Word power, a brief, highly opinionated history of hip-hop journalism / Jeff Chang; title: Critical senility vs. overcomprehension, rock criticism and the lesson of the avant-garde / Robert B. Ray; title: Consumers' guides, the political economy of the music press and the democracy of critical discourse / Mark Fenster; title: Between rock and a hard place, gender and rock criticism / Kembrew McLeod; title: Exclusive! the British press and popular music, the story so far; title: / Martin Cloonan; title: Abandoning the absolute, transcendence and gender in popular music discourse / Holly Kruse; title: The politics and history of hip-hop journalism / Kembrew McLeod; title: Jewel case, pop stars, poets, and the press / Thomas Swiss; title: Taking country music seriously, coverage of the 1990's boom / Joli Jensen; title: Sweet nothings, presentation of women musicians in pop journalism / Brenda Johnson-Grau; title: "The day the music died"; title: again, newspaper coverage of the deaths of popular musicians / Sharon R. Mazzarella and Timoth M. Matyjewicz; title: Fragments of a sociology of rock criticism / Simon Frith; title: The outro / Chris Nelson