B-Sides, Undercurrents and Overtones: Peripheries to Popular in Music, 1960 to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781138257689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 222 str.

George Plasketes

Opis

In this book, George Plasketes adapts the iconic 'A-side/B-side' dichotomy from the 45 r.p.m. for use as a unique conceptual, critical, historical and cultural framework for exploring and threading together a variety of popular music and media texts. The profiles and perspectives focus on the peripheries; on texts which might be considered 'B-sides'”overlooked, underappreciated and unsung cases, creators, patterns and productions that have unassumingly, but significantly, marked popular culture, music and media during the past 40 years. These B-sides represent undercurrents, but they resonate as overtones in the mainstream of music and culture, many as historical hinges. They constitute an important connect-the-dots cultural chronicle with a multi-layered context for interpreting the interrelations between creators and institutions, the music market place, the production of culture and important connections between the peripheral and the popular.

Recenzje

’This work fills a niche in the literature about popular music... The author is knowledgeable about the subject and writes with authority and eloquence... The subjects of the chapters illustrate the concept very well and the book is accessible to the lay reader. ... Recommended for general and special collections about popular and world music...’ Notes '...Plasketes is a wonderful writer about pop music with a strong sense of color and the means to keep these various stories interesting and informative.' Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal

Spis treści

Contents: Preface: my back pages; The flip side: let it B; Get your 45s on: Terry Melcher, lost in the surf and sun of the 1960s sound waves; How the Midwest was won: the Chicago suburbs seven, a mid 1960s regional rotation; Covering outside the lines: Hans Fenger and the Langley Schools Music Project; Geffen records v. Neil Young: the battle of the brands; Music and movie musicality: Ry Cooder, the involved bystander; World music missionaries: cross cultural convergences; The vital visual voice of the videotape editor: seamlessly sculpting Graceland: the African Concert; Rock around the cop: Steve Bochco's Broadway blue print as television musical muse and martyr; Must sing TV: pop rock sitcom cameo obscuras; Umbilical musical chords: lineage, legacy and mom and pop pedigree; Die another day: Warren Zevon's desperado 'deteriorata'; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

George Plasketes is Professor of Radio-Television-Film and Popular Culture in the Department of Communication & Journalism, Auburn University, USA.