Voicing the Popular

On the Subjects of Popular Music
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-97589-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 664 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Middleton, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 of Music (Routledge, 2003). Middleton has also contributed to many standard music reference works.