Understanding popular music culture
By: Roy Shuker.
Contributors: Shuker, Roy.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415419055; 9780415419062
Subjects: Popular music -- History and criticism; Popular culture -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Understanding popular music. 2nd ed. 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p.   ), discography (p.   ) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: "Every 1's a winner" : music as a cultural industry; title: "Pump up the volume" : music and technology; title: "I'm just a singer" : making music and the success continuum; title: "So you want to be a rock'n'roll star?" : auteurs and stars; title: "Message understood"? : musical texts; title: "It's just rock'n'roll to me" : genres, covers, and the canon; title: "Shop around" : retail, radio, and the charts; title: "U got the look" : film, television and MTV; title: "On the cover of the Rolling Stone" : the music press; title: "My generation" : audiences, fans, and collectors; title: "Sound of our town" : subcultures, sounds and scenes; title: "We are the world" : state music policy, globalization, and national identity; title: "Pushin too hard" : moral panics; title: "Revolution" : social change, conscience rock, and identities.