Richard Middleton

Voicing the Popular

On the Subjects of Popular Music

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Produktbeschreibung

"Voicing the Popular" brings together aspects of political economy, cultural history, and musical interpretation to examine the rise of popular music over the past fifty years. A unifying theme is that of 'voice,' by which Middleton means the sphere of vocality through which popular songs are delivered, as well as a broader, metaphorical sense of 'voice' as a vehicle through which subjects articulate, understand, and represent identities and personae. Tackling large themes in the field - including gender, race authenticity, and repetition as a means of structuring popular song - Middleton hopes to bring new clarity to the study of popular music, while also questioning basic assumptions. "Voicing the Popular" brings a fresh, new perspective to the field of popular music studies. Written by a world-renowned authority, it will stand as both a summation and a challenge to all interested in pursuing this growing discipline. Also includes twenty-five musical examples.

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How does popular music produce its subject? How does it produce us as subjects? More specifically, how does it do this through voice--through "giving voice"? And how should we understand this subject--"the people"--that it voices into existence? Is it singular or plural? What is its history and what is its future? Voicing the Popular draws on approaches from musical interpretation, cultural history, social theory and psychoanalysis to explore key topics in the field, including race, gender, authenticity and repetition. Taking most of his examples from across the past hundred years of popular music development--but relating them to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century "pre-history"--Richard Middleton constructs an argument that relates "the popular" to the unfolding of modernity itself. Voicing the Popular renews the case for ambitious theory in musical and cultural studies, and, against the grain of much contemporary thought, insists on the progressive potential of a politics of the Low.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9780415975902
• ISBN-10: 0415975905
• Artikelnr.: 22437899

Autorenporträt

Richard Middleton is Professor of Music at Newcastle University(UK). He is one of the most widely respected scholars of popular music, having authored numerous books including the classic Studying Popular Music(1990) and Reading Pop (2000), and co-founded the leading journal in the field, Popular Music, serving on its editorial board from 1981-1986. He was coeditor of The Cultural Study ofMusic (Routledge, 2003). Middleton has also contributed to many standard music reference works.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents: Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: 'We're Low, We're Low,
We're Very, Very Low' 2 Through a Mask Darkly: Voices of Black Folk 3
Appropriating the Phallus? Female Voices and the Law-of-the-Father 4 Once
More with Feeling: On the Subjects of Repetition 5 The Real Thing? The
Spectre of Authenticity Notes Bibliography