Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate

ISBN-13: 9780415943659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 288 str.

Chris Washburne; Maiken Derno

Opis

An affectionate look at what makes some music 'popular', even if it's judged to be 'bad'. A guilty pleasure for anyone who has ever secretly enjoyed ABBA, Kenny G, or disco

Recenzje

"Every now and then a book comes along that is embedded in our collective cultural conscience that we rarely see publicly discussed. Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate is such a volume." -- Laura J. Gray, University of Wartloo, Notes

Spis treści

Editor's Preface [Acknowledgements] Introduction Maiken Derno and Christopher Washburne Chapter 1: What is Bad Music? Simon Frith I. Value & Identity Politics Chapter 2: White Trash Alchemies of the Abject Sublime: Country as Bad Music Aaron A. Fox Chapter 3: Pop Music, Racial Imagination, and the Sounds of Cheese: Notes on Loser's Lounge Jason Lee Oakes Chapter 4: Bad World Music Timothy D. Taylor Chapter 5: Theorizing the Musically Abject Elizabeth Tolbert II. Canonizing the Popular, Discovering the Mundane Chapter 6: Does Kenny G play Bad Jazz?: A Case Study Christopher Washburne Chapter 7: The Flight from Banality James Koehne Chapter 8: The Good, The Bad, and The Folk Richard Carlin Chapter 9: Film, Music, and the Redemption of the Mundane Giorgio Biancorosso Chapter 10: A moment like this: American Idol and narratives of meritocracy Matthew Wheelock Stahl III. Noise, Malfunction, and Discourses of (In)Authenticity Chapter 11: Extreme Noise Terror: Punk Rock and the Aesthetics of Badness Angela Rodel Chapter 12: Glitch - The Beauty of Malfunction Torben Sangild Chapter 13: Glitches, Bugs, and Hisses: the degeneration of musical recordings and the contemporary musical work Eliot Bates Chapter 14: Rock Critics Need Bad Music Deena Weinstein Chapter 15: Much Too Loud and Not Loud Enough: Issues Involving the Reception of Staged Rock Musicals Elizabeth L. Wollman IV. Historical Afterthought Chapter 16: Trivial Music (Trivialmusik): Preface and Trivial Music and aesthetic judgment Carl Dahlhaus, translated by Ulrike Sailer Introductory comments by Walter Frisch List of contributors

O autorze

Chris Washburne is an Assistant Professor in the Music Department at Columbia University. He is also a trombonist who has played with major bands led by Tito Puente and Eddie Palmieri, and leads his own Latin-jazz group.
Maiken Derno holds a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Dept of Comparative Literature at the U of Copenhagen, and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia U from 1997-98. She also serves as an editor for Brondum Art Publishers, Copenhagen. They reside in New York City.