Summary
Contents
Subject index
This is the first textbook on Pop Music to be written after the start of the iPod era. The book is organized in accessible sections which cover the main themes of research and teaching. It examines the key approaches to understanding popular music, the main settings of exchange and consumption, the role of technology in the production of popular music, the main genres of popular music, and the key debates of the present day.Barbazon writes with verve and penetration. Her approach starts with how most people actually consume music today and transfers this onto the plain of study. The organization of the material enables teachers and students to shuffle from one topic to the next. Yet the book provides an unparalleled network to the core library of concepts and issues in the field. As such, it is the perfect study guide for undergraduates located in this exciting and expanding field.
Dancing to Music
Dancing to Music
Dancing is a cultural practice. Diverse intellectual strategies and theories are required to research and write about it, including history, sociology and leisure studies. The rarity of documentation and evidence about dancing practices raises questions about the techniques and analytical models used to gather source material and develop a coherent approach. Dance studies is an important field that has much to offer popular music studies. Methods deployed include ethnography, participant observation and archive-based historical research. Dance studies is part of a wider study of the body in society and has been part of cultural studies since the late 1980s. Stories of identity are told through dance. It was the great theorist of postmodernity and popular culture, Dick Hebdige, who offered ...
- Loading...