Redefining Mainstream Popular Music

ISBN-13: 9780415807807 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 240 str.

Sarah Baker; Andy Bennett; Jodie Taylor

Opis

Redefining Mainstream Popular Music critically examines the idea of the mainstream in and across a variety of popular music contexts. It is a collection of 17 essays, with the objective to conceptually reframe the mainstream by exploring the relationship between a variety of cultural practices, popular music styles and the context within which they emerge. It explores the nebulous and often problematic use of the term; the reactionary and oppositional articulations of those who distinguish themselves from it; the contingent and conflicting aesthetic and practical operations that the concept embodies; and how it is both interpreted and constructed in an everyday context. There is a broad range of subject matter, which means key areas of popular music studies: identity, industry, technology and everyday engagement with popular music. The central concentration on mainstreams gives an original and pertinent take on key theoretical areas within the field such as authenticity, identity and subculture.

Part I addresses issues of definition and understanding, demonstrating the contextual relevance of these. Part II looks at British and American popular musics of the 50s and 60s, critically reappraising the dialectics of co-opted mainstream versus authentic counter-cultures. Part III focuses on contemporary popular music scenes and production aesthetics that illustrate the flawed proposition and dissolution of the mainstream/alternative binary. Finally, Part IV considers the relationships of the mainstream to everyday uses and engagements with music.""

Spis treści

Part 1: Re-Appraising the Mainstream 1. Making Sense of the Mainstream 2. Queer Dissonances, Lesbian Music Cultures and Multiple Mainstreams Part 2: Perceptions of the Mainstream 3. The Commercial Success of Grunge and the Contradictions of the Mainstream 4. Negotiating the Mainstream from Within: Young Girls’ Understandings of Pop Music Part 3: Historicising the Mainstream 5. Elvis goes Hollywood: Authenticity, Resistance, Commodification and the Mainstream 6. ‘It Ain’t Necessarily So’: Gender, the Popular Music Mainstream and England in the 1960s 7. Historicizing the Mainstream of the Late 1960s: Don Kirshner, The Monkees, and the Archies Part 4: Production, Aesthetics and the Mainstream 8. ‘Sounds Like an Official Mix’: The Mainstream Aesthetics of Amateur Remix Production 9. Jumping a Moving Gate: Local Conceptions of Overseas and Latent Technological Imperialism 10. The Clarity of Distance: Australian Independent Music in a Time of Digital Revolution Part 5: The Mainstream and Vernacular Culture 11. Off the Beaten Track: Vernacular and Mainstream in New Zealand Tramping Club Singing 12. The ‘Mainstream’, Portable Music Devices and ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ Social Life 13. Cheesy Listening: Popular Music and Ironic Listening Practices