Fans and detractors of popular music tend to agree on one thing: popular music is a bellwether of an individual's political and cultural values. In the United States, for example, one cannot think of the counterculture apart from its music. For that reason, in virtually every country in the world, some group identifies popular music as a source of potential danger and wants to regulate it. "Policing Pop" looks into the many ways in which popular music and artists around the world are subjected to censorship, ranging from state control and repression to the efforts of special interest or...
Fans and detractors of popular music tend to agree on one thing: popular music is a bellwether of an individual's political and cultural values. In th...
Fans of popular music tend to agree on one thing: popular music is a bellweather of an individual's political and cultural values. In the USA, for example, one cannot think of the counterculture apart from its music. For that reason, in virtually every country in the world, some group identifies popular music as a source of potential danger and wants to regulate it. This work looks into the many ways in which popular music and artists around the world are subjected to censorship, ranging from state control and repression to the efforts of special interest or religious groups to limit...
Fans of popular music tend to agree on one thing: popular music is a bellweather of an individual's political and cultural values. In the USA, for exa...
Roy Orbison's musicOCowhether heard in his own recordings or in cover versions of his songsOCois a significant part of contemporary American culture despite the fact that he died almost a generation ago. Few of today's listeners know or remember how startlingly unique he seemed at the height of his career in the early 1960s. In this book, Peter Lehman looks at the long span of Orbison's career and probes into the uniqueness of his songs, singing, and performance style, arguing that singer/songwriters no less than filmmakers can be considered as auteurs.Unlike other pop stars, Orbison was a...
Roy Orbison's musicOCowhether heard in his own recordings or in cover versions of his songsOCois a significant part of contemporary American culture d...
Roy Orbison's music - whether heard in his own recordings or in cover versions of his songs - is a significant part of contemporary American culture despite the fact that he died almost a generation ago. Here, Peter Lehman looks at the long span of Orbison's career and probes into the uniqueness of his songs, singing and performance style, arguing that singer/songwriters no less than filmmakers can be considered as auteurs.
Roy Orbison's music - whether heard in his own recordings or in cover versions of his songs - is a significant part of contemporary American culture d...