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Redefining Mainstream Popular Music

Author : Sarah Baker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136465308
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Redefining Mainstream Popular Music written by Sarah Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefining Mainstream Popular Music is a collection of seventeen essays that critically examines the idea of the "mainstream" in and across a variety of popular music styles and contexts. Notions of what is popular vary across generations and cultures – what may have been considered alternative to one group may be perceived as mainstream to another. Incorporating a wide range of popular music texts, genres, scenes, practices and technologies from the United Kingdom, North America, Australia and New Zealand, the authors theoretically challenge and augment our understanding of how the mainstream is understood and functions in the overlapping worlds of popular music production, consumption and scholarship. Spanning the local and the global, the historic and contemporary, the iconic and the everyday, the book covers a broad range of genres, from punk to grunge to hip-hop, while also considering popular music through other mediums, including mash-ups and the music of everyday work life. Redefining Mainstream Popular Music provides readers with an innovative and nuanced perspective of what it means to be mainstream.

Alternative Mainstream

Author : Gert Keunen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789078088950
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Mainstream written by Gert Keunen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which mechanisms and logics of decision-making form the basis of selections made by those working in the pop music circuit? Almost as a rule, the same bands will gain all the hype and make the crossover to fame. Why are only some bands considered, and why are these always the same? This book investigates the segment of the music industry that lies between mainstream and underground, including genres ranging from hip hop to rock, and from folk to electronic music. Keunen delves into the aesthetics and ideologies behind the alternative mainstream's cultural construct, embedding his findings in a broader socio-economic context.

The Musical Mainstream

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Musical Mainstream written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Musical Mainstream

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Musical Mainstream written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-04 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Semiotics of Popular Music

Author : Martina Elicker
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823346586
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics of Popular Music written by Martina Elicker and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1997 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Music at the Extremes

Author : Scott A. Wilson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476620067
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Music at the Extremes written by Scott A. Wilson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Away from the spotlight of the pop charts and the demands of mainstream audiences, original music is still being played and audiences continue to engage with innovative artists. This collection of fresh essays gathers together critical writing on such genres as Power Electronics, Black Metal, Neo-Folk, Martial Industrial, Hard-Core Punk and Horrorcore. The contributors report from the periphery of the music world, seeking to understand these new genres, how fans connect with artists and how artists engage with their audiences. Diverse music scenes are covered, from small-town New Zealand to Washington, D.C., and Ljubljana, Slovenia. Artists discussed include Coil, Laibach, Whitehouse, Insane Clown Posse, Wolves in the Throne Room, Turisas, Tyr, GG Allin and many others.

Music Therapy in Schools

Author : Amelia Oldfield
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780857004741
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Music Therapy in Schools written by Amelia Oldfield and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of music therapy work with children takes place in schools. This book documents the wealth and diversity of work that music therapists are doing in educational settings across the UK. It shows how, in recent years, music therapy has changed and grown as a profession, and it provides an insight into the trends that are emerging in this area in the 21st century. Collating the experiences of a range of music therapists from both mainstream and special education backgrounds, Music Therapy in Schools explains the procedures, challenges and benefits of using music therapy in an educational context. These music therapists have worked with children of all ages and abilities from pre-school toddlers in nursery schools to teenagers preparing for further education, and address specific issues and disabilities including working with children with emotional and behavioural problems, and autistic spectrum disorders. This book will be essential reading for music therapists, music therapy students and educational professionals.

Twentieth-Century Music in the West

Author : Tom Perchard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108481981
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century Music in the West written by Tom Perchard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduction Steve Reich pitched up in San Francisco in September 1961. He was a young musician, one who had been taken by the early-century work of the Hungarian composer and folklorist Béla Bartók, and he had journeyed west from New York in the hope of studying with Leon Kirchner, a composer in the rough-lyric Bartók tradition who'd been teaching at Mills College. But Kirchner had just left for Harvard, so Reich ended up working at Mills under Luciano Berio. Over the course of the previous decade, Berio had become identified as a figurehead of the European post-war avant-garde: his ultramodern serialist work was quite a different proposition to Kirchner's own"--

Alone in the Mainstream

Author : Gina A. Oliva
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781563683008
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Alone in the Mainstream written by Gina A. Oliva and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes her life and experiences as the only deaf child in her public schools.

MuzikMafia

Author : David B. Pruett
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604734393
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book MuzikMafia written by David B. Pruett and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2001, an unlikely gathering of musicians calling itself the MuzikMafia took place at the Pub of Love in Nashville, Tennessee. "We had all been beat up pretty good by the 'industry' and we told ourselves, if nothing else, we might as well be playing muzik," explains Big Kenny of Big and Rich. For the next year and a half, the MuzikMafia performed each week and garnered an ever-growing, dedicated fan base. Five years, several national tours, six Grammy nominations, and eleven million sold albums later, the MuzikMafia now includes a family of artists including founding members Big and Rich, Jon Nicholson, and Cory Gierman along with Gretchen Wilson, Cowboy Troy, James Otto, Shannon Lawson, Damien Horne (Mista D), Two-Foot Fred, Rachel Kice, and several more in development. This book explores how a set of shared beliefs created a bond that transformed the MuzikMafia into a popular music phenomenon. David B. Pruett examines the artists' coalition from the inside perspective he gained in five years of working with them. Looking at all aspects of the collective, MuzikMafia documents the problems encountered along the ascent, including business difficulties, tensions among members, disagreements with record labels, and miscalculations artists inevitably made before the MuzikMafia unofficially dissolved in 2008. A final section examines hope for the future: the birth of Mafia Nation in 2009.

Music in the Age of Anxiety

Author : James Wierzbicki
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252098277
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Music in the Age of Anxiety written by James Wierzbicki and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derided for its conformity and consumerism, 1950s America paid a price in anxiety. Prosperity existed under the shadow of a mushroom cloud. Optimism wore a Bucky Beaver smile that masked worry over threats at home and abroad. But even dread could not quell the revolutionary changes taking place in virtually every form of mainstream music. Music historian James Wierzbicki sheds light on how the Fifties' pervasive moods affected its sounds. Moving across genres established--pop, country, opera--and transfigured--experimental, rock, jazz--Wierzbicki delves into the social dynamics that caused forms to emerge or recede, thrive or fade away. Red scares and white flight, sexual politics and racial tensions, technological progress and demographic upheaval--the influence of each rooted the music of this volatile period to its specific place and time. Yet Wierzbicki also reveals the host of underlying connections linking that most apprehensive of times to our own uneasy present.

Major Labels

Author : Kelefa Sanneh
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525559604
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Major Labels written by Kelefa Sanneh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite Books of 2021 • Selected as one of Pitchfork's Best Music Books of the Year “One of the best books of its kind in decades.” —The Wall Street Journal An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, charting the way genres become communities. In Major Labels, Sanneh distills a career’s worth of knowledge about music and musicians into a brilliant and omnivorous reckoning with popular music—as an art form (actually, a bunch of art forms), as a cultural and economic force, and as a tool that we use to build our identities. He explains the history of slow jams, the genius of Shania Twain, and why rappers are always getting in trouble. Sanneh shows how these genres have been defined by the tension between mainstream and outsider, between authenticity and phoniness, between good and bad, right and wrong. Throughout, race is a powerful touchstone: just as there have always been Black audiences and white audiences, with more or less overlap depending on the moment, there has been Black music and white music, constantly mixing and separating. Sanneh debunks cherished myths, reappraises beloved heroes, and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that sometimes, the best popular music isn’t transcendent. Songs express our grudges as well as our hopes, and they are motivated by greed as well as idealism; music is a powerful tool for human connection, but also for human antagonism. This is a book about the music everyone loves, the music everyone hates, and the decades-long argument over which is which. The opposite of a modest proposal, Major Labels pays in full.

Connecting Sounds

Author : Nick Crossley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526126030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Connecting Sounds written by Nick Crossley and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores the doing and meanings of music, as well as its interface with economic, political and wider social structures.

Bidding for the Mainstream?

Author : Barbara Korte
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004484329
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Bidding for the Mainstream? written by Barbara Korte and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at a sector of black and Asian British film and television as it presented itself in the 1990s and early 2000s. For this period, a ‘mainstreaming’ of black and Asian British film has been observed in criticism and theory and articulated by an increasing number of practitioners themselves, referring to changing modes of production, distribution and reception and implying a more popular and commercial orientation of certain media products. This idea is a leitmotif for the authors’ readings of recent films and examples of television drama, including such diverse products as Young Soul Rebels and Babymother, East Is East and Bend It Like Beckham, The Buddha of Suburbia and White Teeth. These analyses are supplemented with a look at earlier landmark productions (like Pressure) as well as relevant social, institutional and aesthetic frameworks. The book closes with a selection of statements by black and Asian media practitioners who operate from within Britain’s cultural industries: Mike Phillips, Horace Ové, Julian Henriques, Parminder Vir and Gurinder Chadha.

Friendly Remainders

Author : Phillip Murray Dineen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773538844
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Friendly Remainders written by Phillip Murray Dineen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical look at modern music from Beethoven and Coltrane to Schoenberg and Zappa

The Lifework and Legacy of Iona and Peter Opie

Author : Julia C. Bishop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429941188
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Lifework and Legacy of Iona and Peter Opie written by Julia C. Bishop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iona and Peter Opie were twentieth-century pioneers. Their research and writing focused on the folklore of British children – their games, rhymes, riddles, secret languages and every variety of the traditions and inventions of the children’s collective physical and verbal play. Such closely observed, respectful, good-humoured and historically attuned writing about the traditions of childhood was a revelation to English-language readers around the world. Their numerous books were a rare phenomenon: they attracted a popular readership far beyond the professional and academic communities. For those who work with children, their collaborative research was a powerful influence in confirming the immense capacities of the young for cooperation, conservation, invention and imagination. Their books challenged – then and now – the bleak and limited view of children which focuses on their smallness, ignorance and powerlessness. The writers in this volume pay their tribute to the Opies by exploring a wonderfully varied topography of children's play, from different countries and different perspectives. Their research is vivid and challenging; that is, as it should be, in the tradition of the Opies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Play.

Apostles of Rock

Author : Jay R. Howard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813127163
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Apostles of Rock written by Jay R. Howard and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apostles of Rock is the first objective, comprehensive examination of the contemporary Christian music phenomenon. Some see CCM performers as ministers or musical missionaries, while others define them as entertainers or artists. This popular musical movement clearly evokes a variety of responses concerning the relationship between Christ and culture. The resulting tensions have splintered the genre and given rise to misunderstanding, conflict, and an obsessive focus on self-examination. As Christian stars Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, DC Talk, and Sixpence None the Richer climb the mainstream.