Summary
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This collection focuses on social science perspectives on popular music since the late 1970s when the drift away from Musicology started. The latter focuses upon music as a sequence of notes and silence, rather than the social, economic, cultural and political contexts in which popular music is produced, exchanged and consumed. Since the 1970s, social scientists like Simon Frith, Larry Grossberg, Will Straw, Paul Willis, Andy Bennett, Keith Negus, Howard Becker and Sarah Thornton have intensively examined the phenomenon of popular music from a social science and cultural studies perspective. This is part of the same move in the social and cultural sciences that has magnified Visual Culture, Celebrity Culture, Television Studies, Film Studies, Media & Communication, Fashion, and much else besides as legitimate subjects ...
Editor's Introduction: Popular Music
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Popular music refers to the music produced by and for the people. It is a derivation from the Latin word popularis, meaning ‘belonging to the people’. As Raymond Williams (1976:198) notes, the term ‘popular’ carries two paradoxical yet deeply entwined quantitative and qualitative meanings. The quantitative, descriptive meaning is simply the traditions and practices carried on by the people. The qualitative, evaluative meaning is the categorization of popular practice as ‘low’ or ‘base’.
Hence, what is widely liked or well favoured connotes inferiority. By the 18th century Williams notes an added inflection to the term that is more overtly ideological. Popular practice came to be regarded as conduct designed to curry favour. Doing a notable popular deed, therefore, became associated with winning ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I: History and Theoretical Traditions
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Defining the Popular
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1. A Vocabulary of Culture and Society: Popular
Raymond Williams
1976
Raymond Williams Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
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2. Introduction from the Troubadours
Robert Briffault | Lawrence Koons
1965
The Troubadours
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3. The Troubadour Tradition in Italy and England
Robert Briffault | Lawrence Koons
1965
The Troubadours
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4. ‘On Popular Music’: Material and Text
Theodor Adorno
2009
Current of Music
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5. Authorship
Will Straw
1999
Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture
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6. Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music
Simon Frith
1987
Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception
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7. Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music
Richard Peterson
1990
Popular Music
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8. The Music Industry and the ‘Cultural Imperialism’ Thesis
Dave Laing
1986
Media, Culture and Society
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9. World Beat and the Cultural Imperialism Debate
Andrew Goodwin | Joe Gore
1990
Socialist Review
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Disciplinary Approaches
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Volume II: Technology and Copyright
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Formations of Technology
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24. Sound Studies: New Technologies and Music
Trevor Pinch | Karin Bijsterveld
2004
Social Studies of Science
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25. Art versus Technology: The Strange Case of Popular Music
Simon Frith
1986
Media, Culture and Society
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26. The ‘Sound’ of Music: Technological Rationalization and the Production of Popular Music
Paul Théberge
1989
New Formations
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Shuhei Hosokawa
1984
Popular Music
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Keir Keightley
2004
Media, Culture & Society
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29. Sample and Hold: Pop Music in the Digital Age of Reproduction
Andrew Goodwin
1988
On Record
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Jack Bishop
2005
Popular Music and Society
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31. Flexibility, Post-Fordism and the Music Industries
David Hesmondhalgh
1996
Media, Culture & Society
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32. Globalization of Mass Media Ownership: Implications and Effects
Paul Hirsch
1992
Communications Research
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Copyright and Illegal Downloading
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33. Copyright and the Music Business
Simon Frith
1988
Popular Music
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34. The Effects of Piracy upon the Music Industry: A Case Study of Bootlegging
Lee Marshall
2004
Media, Culture & Society
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35. New Digital Technologies: Privacy/Property, Globalization, and Law
Matthew David | Jamieson Kirkhope
2004
Perspectives on Global Development and Technology
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36. Cultures of Copying: Digital Sampling and Copyright Law
Lionel Bently | Brad Sherman
1992
Entertainment Law Review
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Lionel Bently
1989
Journal of Business Law
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David Wall
1996
International Journal of the Sociology of Law
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Helen Rees
2003
British Journal of Ethnomusicology
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Volume III: Representation and Consumption
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Representation
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40. The Content and Validity of Music-Genre Stereotypes among College Students
Peter Rentfrow | Samuel Gosling
2007
Psychology of Music
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Peter Manuel
1995
Popular Music
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Rupa Huq
2003
Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research
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43. Open Letter: ‘Black Music’, ‘Afro-American Music’ and ‘European Music’
Philip Tagg
1989
Popular Music
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44. “Leer-ics” or Lyrics: Teenage Impressions of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Lorraine Prinsky | Jill Rosenbaum
1987
Youth & Society
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Stars
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45. Frank Sinatra: The Popular Front and an American Icon
Gerald Meyer
2002
Science & Society
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46. Rock Culture: The Dialectics of Life and Death
David Rowe
1985
Australian Journal of Cultural Studies
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Media
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James Trammell
2003
Journal of Communication Inquiry
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48. Radio Space and Industrial Time: Music Formats, Local Narratives and Technological Mediation
Jody Berland
1990
Popular Music
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49. MTV and the Globalization of Popular Culture
Jack Banks
1997
International Communication Gazette
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50. ‘Think Globally, Act Locally’: China's Rendezvous with MTV
Anthony Fung
2006
Global Media and Communication
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51. From Music Publishing to MP3: Music and Industry in the Twentieth Century
Reebee Garofalo
1999
American Music
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52. “Reality Goes Pop!”: Reality TV, Popular Music, and Narratives of Stardom in Pop Idol
Su Holmes
2004
Television & New Media
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Fans
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Bethany Bryson
1997
Poetics
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54. Amateur Experts: International Fan Labour in Swedish Independent Music
Nancy Baym | Robert Burnett
2009
International Journal of Cultural Studies
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John Banks | Mark Deuze
2009
International Journal of Cultural Studies
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Volume IV: Cultures and Subcultures of Popular Music
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Cultures
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56. Cultures of Music Piracy: An Ethnographic Comparison of the US and Japan
Ian Condry
2004
International Journal of Cultural Studies
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57. Youth Culture, Music, and Cell Phone Branding in China
Jing Wang
2005
Global Media and Communication
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58. J-Pop and Performances of Young Female Identity: Music, Gender and Urban Space in Tokyo
Csaba Toth
2008
Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research
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59. Rap Music and the Black Musical Tradition: A Critical Assessment
Andre Craddock-Willis
1989
Radical America
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60. Youth Subcultures and Their Cultural Contexts
Jon Stratton
1985
Journal of Sociology
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Subcultures
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61. Subcultural Identity in Alternative Music Culture
Holly Kruse
1993
Popular Music
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62. Digital Subculture: A Geek Meaning of Style
J. McArthur
2009
Journal of Communication Inquiry
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63. The Evolution of Rai Music
Hana Al-Deen
2005
Journal of Black Studies
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64. Subcultures or Neo-Tribes? Rethinking the Relationship between Youth, Style and Musical Taste
Andy Bennett
1999
Sociology
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65. Heavy Metal Music: A New Subculture in American Society
Robert Gross
1990
Journal of Popular Culture
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66. Homies in the ‘Hood: Rap's Commodification of Insubordination
Ted Swedenburg
1992
New Formations
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67. Creating a Scene: Balinese Punk's Beginnings
Emma Baulch
2002
International Journal of Cultural Studies
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Brian Wilson | Michael Atkinson
2005
Youth & Society
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World Music/Hybrid Formations
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69. Between Globalisation and Localisation: A Study of Hong Kong Popular Music
Wai-Chung Ho
2003
Popular Music
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70. On Redefining the “Local” through World Music
Jocelyne Guilbault
1993
The World of Music
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71. World Music: Deterritorializing Place and Identity
John Connell | Chris Gibson
2004
Progress in Human Geography
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