Understanding popular music culture
By: Roy Shuker
Edition: Fifth edition.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781138907836; 9781138907850; 9781315694870
Subjects: Textbooks; Popular culture; Popular music; History and criticism; History
Notes: "@ Companion website"--Cover.

Companion website features additional resources for students and teachers, including additional case studies, links to relevant websites, and a discography of popular music metagenres.

"Popular music timeline": pages 281-289.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-294) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'What's goin' on?' : Introduction : popular music culture; title: 'Every 1's a winner' : the music industry and the record companies; title: 'Pump up the volume' : music and technology; title: 'I'm just a singer' : making music, the rock musician, and the success continuum; title: 'So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star?' : auteurs and stars; title: 'Message understood' : musical texts; title: 'The real thing' : authenticity, covers and the canon; title: 'It's still rock and roll to me' : genre; title: 'Shop around' : marketing and mediation; title: 'U got the look' : from film and television to YouTube; title: 'The cover of Rolling stone' : the music press; title: 'My generation' : identity, consumption, and fandom; title: 'Sound of our town' : subcultures, sounds and scenes; title: 'Revolution' : social change, conscience rock, and identity politics; title: 'Pushin too hard' : moral panic, state regulation and censorship; title: 'We are the world' : globalization and state music policy; title: 'Time will pass you by' : histories and popular memory; title: 'Wrap it up' : making music and making meaning.