George Plasketes

B-Sides, Undercurrents and Overtones

Peripheries to Popular in Music, 1960 to the Present

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There are undercurrents and peripheral taste preferences that are a defining part of our individual and collective cultural experience. Music is no exception. This book adapts the 'A-side/B-side' dichotomy from the 45 r p m for use as a conceptual, historical, and cultural framework for threading together popular music and media texts.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780754665618
• ISBN-10: 0754665615
• Artikelnr.: 41241907

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.