Popular Music: Topics, Trends & Trajectories / Edition 1

by Tara Brabazon

Overview

An introductory textbook which uses short bite-sized snap shots to introduce the key debates & approaches, technologies and genres in popular music. Written by an internationally recognised authority it explores the 'ipodification' of popular music whilst providing clear social context for the field as a whole.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847874368
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/26/2011
Pages:	287
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Tara Brabazon is Professor of Media at the University of Brighton, Visiting Professor at Edge Hill's SOLSTICE CETL, and Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA).

Previously, Tara has held academic positions in both Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. An outstanding teacher, she won six teaching awards, including the Australian National Teaching Award for the Humanities in 1998, along with others in the areas of disability and cultural studies. In 2005, Tara won both the Murdoch University Postgraduate Supervisor of the Year and the Teaching Excellence Award. In 2009 and she won the University of Brighton's Teaching Excellence Award, nominated by both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She was a finalist for the 2005 Australian of the Year and also the 2005 Telstra Businesswoman of the Year in the Community Service category. In 1999 and 2002, she was short-listed for the Western Australian Citizen of the Year.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Walking on the Dance Floor
Approaches
Listening to Music
Visualizing Music
Dancing to Music
Thinking about Music
Writing about Music
Music Spaces
Sonic Architecture/Soundscape
City Music and Urban Spaces
Recording Spaces
Clubs and Pubs
Soundtracks and Filmic Spaces
Music Video and Televisual Spaces
Radio, Podcasting and Listening Spaces
MP3 and Downloading Spaces
Instruments of/for Study
Guitar Cultures
Keyboard Cultures
Drumming and Percussion
Voice
Turntablism
i Pod
Genre and Community
Country
Folk
The Blues
Rock and Roll
Soul
Reggae and Ska
Salsa
Metal
Punk and Indie
Hip Hop
Disco
House and Post-House Musics
World Music
Debates
Intellectual Property
Censorship and Regulation
Race, Appropriation and Commodification
Girl Groups and Feminism
Boy Bands and Men's Studies
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgenderist Musics
Digitization, User-Generated Content and Social Networking
Music: Politics, Resistance and Protest
Conclusion: Walking off the Dance Floor
Sonic Sources
Visual Sources

Editorial Reviews

An incredibly wide-ranging critical account of popular music. The book is an essential resource for all staff and students in the field
Prof John Storey
Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland

One of the most thoughtful, inspirational and engaging popular music texts of recent years. It deserves to be well-thumbed by popular music students, academics and researchers alike. Insightful at every corner, the text covers a kaleidoscopic range of subjects - from country music to copyright, Madchester to Myspace - and delivers a wonderfully clear, authoritative and lively invitation to think and write about music. As pedagogically enriching as it is analytically sophisticated, the text not only describes current digital music cultures, but also suggests fruitful movements beyond current orthodoxies of popular music studies. A serious intervention that just so happens to be a clear and accessible textbook
Nick Prior
Senior Lecturer, Sociology, University of Edinburgh

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