Understanding popular music culture
By: by Roy Shuker
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415517133; 9780415517171; 9780203094358
Subjects: Popular culture; Popular music; History and criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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' : textual analysis and popular musicology; title: 'It's just rock 'n' roll to me' : genre, authenticity, and the canon; title: 'Shop around' : marketing and mediation; title: 'U got the look' : from film to video games : music and pictures; title: 'On the cover of The Rolling Stone' : the music press; title: 'My generation' : identity and consumption : audiences, fans, and social networks; title: 'Sound of our town' : subcultures, sounds, and scenes; title: 'Revolution' : social change, conscience rock, and identity politics; title: 'Pushin' too hard' : moral panics; title: 'We are the world' : state music policy.