Redefining mainstream popular music
By: edited by Sarah Baker, Andy Bennett, and Jodie Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415807807; 9780415807821; 9780203127858
Subjects: Popular culture; Popular music; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mainstream as metaphor : imagining dominant culture  -- Alison Huber; title: Teenybop and the extraordinary particularities of mainstream practice  -- Sarah Baker; title: Mainstream mythology : the industrial organization of The Archies  -- Matt Stahl; title: Lesbian musicalities, queer strains and celesbian pop : the poetics and polemics of women-loving women in mainstream popular music  -- Jodie Taylor; title: The positioning of the mainstream in punk  -- Erik Hannerz; title: Kill the static : temporality and change in the hip-hop mainstream (and its "other")  -- Murray Forman; title: The contradictions of the mainstream : Australian views of grunge and commercial success  -- Catherine Strong; title: Elvis goes Hollywood : authenticity, resistance, commodification and the mainstream  -- David Baker; title: Walking in Memphis? : Elvis heritage between fan fantasy and built environment  -- Mark Duffett; title: "Following in mother's silent footsteps" : revisiting the construction of femininities in 1960s popular music  -- Sheila Whiteley; title: Music from abroad : the internationalization of the US mainstream music market, 1940-90  -- Timothy J. Dowd; title: "Sounds like an official mix" : the mainstream aesthetics of mash-up production  -- Adrian Renzo; title: Chasing an aesthetic tail : latent technological imperialism in mainstream production  -- Dennis Crowdy; title: The hobbyist majority and the mainstream fringe : the pathways of independent music-making in Brisbane, Australia  -- Ian Rogers; title: Off the beaten track : vernacular and the mainstream in New Zealand tramping club singsongs  -- Michael Brown; title: Musical listening at work : mainstream musical listening practices in the office  -- Michael Walsh; title: Cheesy listening : popular music and ironic listening practices -- Andy Bennett.