Pop When the World Falls Apart (eBook, PDF)

Music in the Shadow of Doubt
Redaktion: Eric Weisbard, Weisbard

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Hearing Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan once said, was "e;like busting out of jail."e; But what happens when popular music isn't as simple as rock-and-roll rebellion? How does pop respond to such events as a decade-long war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina? In Pop When the World Falls Apart, a diverse array of music writers, scholars, and enthusiasts reflect on popular music's role-as commentary, as refuge, and as rallying cry-in times of military conflict, social upheaval, and cultural crisis.Drawn from presentations at the annual Experience Music Project Pop Conference-hailed by Robert Christgau as "e;the best thing that's ever happened to serious consideration of pop music"e;-the essays in this book include inquiries into the sonic dimension of war in Iraq; the cultural life of jazz in post-Katrina New Orleans; Isaac Hayes's reappropriation of a country song, "e;By the Time I Get to Phoenix,"e; as a symbol of black nationalism; and punk rock pranks played on record execs looking for the next big thing in central Virginia. Offering a diverse range of voices, perspectives, and approaches, this volume mirrors the eclecticism of pop itself.Contributors: Larry Blumenfeld , Austin Bunn, Nate Chinen, J. Martin Daughtry, Brian Goedde, Michelle Habell-Pallan, Jonathan Lethem, Eric Lott, Kembrew McLeod, Elena Passarello, Diane Pecknold, David Ritz, Carlo Rotella, Scott Seward, Tom Smucker, Greg Tate, Karen Tongson, Alexandra T. Vazquez, Oliver Wang, Eric Weisbard, Carl Wilson

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822394693
• Artikelnr.: 54791139

Autorenporträt

Eric Weisbard is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama. His previous books include, as editor, Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction / Eric Weisbard 1
Collapsing Distance: The Love-Song of the Wanna-Be, or The Fannish Auteur /
Jonathan Lethem 7
Black Rockers vs. Blackies Who Rock, or The Difference between Race and
Music / Greg Tate 15
Toward an Ethics of Knowing Nothing / Alexandra T. Vazquez 27
Divided Byline: How a Student of Leslie Fiedler and a Colleague of Charles
Keil Became the Ghostwriter for Everybody from Ray Charles to Cornell West
/ David Ritz 40
Boring and Horrifying Whiteness: The Rise and Fall of Reaganism as
Prefigured by the Career Arcs of Carpenters, Lawrence Welk, and the Beach
Boys in 1973-74 / Tom Smucker 47
Perfect is Dead: Karen Carpenter, Theodor Adorno, and the Radio, or If
Hooks Could Kill / Eric Lott 62
Agents of Orange: Studio K and Cloud 9 / Karen Tongson 82
Belliphonic Sounds and Indoctrinated Ears: The Dynamics of Military
Listening in Wartime Iraq / J. Martin Daughtry 111
Since the Flood: Scenes for the Fight for New Orleans Jazz Culture / Larry
Blumenfeld 145
(Over the) Rainbow Warrior: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole and Another Kind of
Somewhere / Nate Chinen 176
Travel with Me: Country Music, Race, and Remembrance / Diane Pecknold 185
The Comfort Zone: Shaping the Retro-Soul Audience / Oliver Wang 201
Within Limits: On the Greatness of Magic Slim / Carlo Rotella 230
Urban Music in the Teenage Heartland / Brian Goedde, Austin Bunn, and Elena
Passarello 240
"Death to Racism and Punk Revisionism": Alice Bag's Vexing Voice and the
Unspeakable Influence of Canción Ranchera on Hollywood Punk / Michelle
Habell-Pallán 247
Of Wolves and Vibrancy: A Brief Explanation of the Marriage Made in Hell
between Folk Music, Dead Cultures, Myth, and Highly Technical Modern
Extreme Metal / Scott Seward 271
The New Market Affair: Media Pranks, the Music Industry's Last Big Gold
Rush, and the Hunt for Hits in the Shenandoah Valley / Kembrew McLeod 282
All That Is Solid Melts into Schmaltz: Poptimism vs. the Guilty Displeasure
/ Carl Wilson 299
Contributors 313
Index 317