Regev Pop-Rock Music

Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-7880-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Pop music and rock music are often treated as separate genresbut the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regevargues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical formdefined by the use of electric and electronic instruments,amplification and related techniques. The history of pop-rockextends from the emergence of rock'n'roll in the 1950s to a varietyof contemporary fashions and trends - rock, punk, soul, funk,techno, hip hop, indie, metal, pop and many more.
This book offers a highly original account of the emergence ofpop-rock music as a global phenomenon in which Anglo-American andmany other national and ethnic variants interact in complexways. Pop-rock is analysed as a prime instance of 'aestheticcosmopolitanism' - that is, the gradual formation, in latemodernity, of world culture as a single interconnected entity inwhich different social groupings around the world increasinglyshare common ground in their aesthetic perceptions, expressiveforms and cultural practices.
Drawing on a wide array of examples, this path-breaking bookwill be of great interest to students and scholars in culturalsociology, media and cultural studies as well as the study ofpopular music.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Regev, Motti

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
1 Theories and Concepts 1
Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism: A Theoretical Framework 4
Characterizing Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism 6
Theoretical Framework 9
Rock, Pop, and Popular Music 17
Structure of the Book 23
Methodological Note 26
2 Expressive Isomorphism 28
Pop-Rock Styles and Genres 32
Pop-Rock Divas 33
Rock Auteurs 35
Progressive Rock 37
Punk and Metal 38
Electronic Dance Music 40
Hip-Hop 41
Ethnic Rock/New Folk 43
Dominance of the Musical Public Sphere 46
Legitimation Discourse 50
Ritual Classification: Tradition vs. Pop-Rock 52
Ritual Periodization: The "Birth of Rock" 54
3 A Field of Cultural Production 57
Working of the Field 59
Production of Meaning 61
Pop-Rock's Ideology of Art 65
Mechanisms of Change and Innovation 75
Avant-Gardism 76
Commercialism 78
The Spiral of Expansion 80
Structure of the Field 83
National (Sub-) Fields of Pop-Rock Music 87
4 Long-Term Event of Pop-Rockization 91
Events 93
The Musical Event 95
The Historical Musical Event of Pop-Rock 96
Agency 97
Early "Pre-History" 106
Consecrated Beginning 108
Consolidation and Rise to Dominance 113
Diversification, Internationalization, Glorification 117
5 Aesthetic Cultures 123
Subcultural Scenes to Aesthetic Cultures 126
Aesthetic Cultures 129
Forms of Pop-Rock Knowledge 131
Early Participation 133
Global Microstructures 136
Internet Platforms 138
The Pop-Rock Intelligentsia 142
Indie/Alternative Pop-Rock 142
Alternative Pop-Rock on the Web 146
An Extended Case: Israeli Cognoscenti 148
6 Sonic Vocabularies, Spaces, and Bodies 158
Sonic Vocabularies 161
Tones and Timbres 162
Museme Stacks and Strings 165
Global Electro-Amplified Soundscapes 168
Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Bodies 172
Actants of Intercultural Phenomenological Proximity 177
References 180
Index 195

Über Autor(innen)

Motti Regev is professor of sociology at The Open University of Israel where he works on the sociology of culture and art and popular music studies.