Pop when the world falls apart : music in the shadow of doubt /
Pop when the world falls apart : music in the shadow of doubt /
[edited by] Eric Weisbard.
- Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2012.
- 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Eric Weisbard -- Collapsing distance: the love-song of the wanna-be, or the fannish auteur / Jonathan Lethem -- Black rockers vs. blackies who rock, or the difference between race and music / Greg Tate -- Toward an ethics of knowing nothing / Alexandra T. Vazquez -- Divided byline: how a student of Leslie Fiedler and a colleague of Charles Keil became the ghostwriter for everybody from Ray Charles to Cornel West / David Ritz -- 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 -- Perfect is dead: Theodor Adorno, Karen Carpenter, and the radio, or if hooks could kill / Eric Lott -- Agents of orange: Studio K and Cloud 9 / Karen Tongson -- Belliphonic sounds and indoctrinated ears: the dynamics of military listening in wartime Iraq / J. Martin Daughtry -- Since the flood: scenes from the fight for New Orleans jazz culture / Larry Blumenfeld -- (Over the) Rainbow warrior: Israel Kamakawiwole and another kind of somewhere / Nate Chinen -- Travel with me: country music, race, and remembrance / Diane Pecknold -- The comfort zone: shaping the retro-soul audience / Oliver Wang -- Within limits: on the greatness of magic slim / Carlo Rotella -- Urban music in the teenage heartland / Brian Boedde, Austin Bunn, and Elena Passarello -- Death to racism and punk revisionism?: Alice Bag's vexing voice and the unspeakable influence of cancioÌn ranchera on Hollywood punk / Michelle Gabell-PallaÌn -- Of wolves and vibrancy: a brief exploration of the marriage made in hell between folk music, dead cultures, myth, and highly technical modern extreme metal / Scott Seward -- The new market affair: media pranks, the music industrys last big gold rush, and the hunt for hits in the Shenandoah valley / Kembrew Mcleod -- All that is solid melts into schmaltz: poptimism vs. the guilty displeasure / Carl Wilson.
9780822350996 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822351085 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2011048245
Music--Social aspects--History--20th century.
Music--Social aspects--History--21st century.
Popular music--History and criticism.
ML3916 / .P673 2012
781.64/159
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Eric Weisbard -- Collapsing distance: the love-song of the wanna-be, or the fannish auteur / Jonathan Lethem -- Black rockers vs. blackies who rock, or the difference between race and music / Greg Tate -- Toward an ethics of knowing nothing / Alexandra T. Vazquez -- Divided byline: how a student of Leslie Fiedler and a colleague of Charles Keil became the ghostwriter for everybody from Ray Charles to Cornel West / David Ritz -- 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 -- Perfect is dead: Theodor Adorno, Karen Carpenter, and the radio, or if hooks could kill / Eric Lott -- Agents of orange: Studio K and Cloud 9 / Karen Tongson -- Belliphonic sounds and indoctrinated ears: the dynamics of military listening in wartime Iraq / J. Martin Daughtry -- Since the flood: scenes from the fight for New Orleans jazz culture / Larry Blumenfeld -- (Over the) Rainbow warrior: Israel Kamakawiwole and another kind of somewhere / Nate Chinen -- Travel with me: country music, race, and remembrance / Diane Pecknold -- The comfort zone: shaping the retro-soul audience / Oliver Wang -- Within limits: on the greatness of magic slim / Carlo Rotella -- Urban music in the teenage heartland / Brian Boedde, Austin Bunn, and Elena Passarello -- Death to racism and punk revisionism?: Alice Bag's vexing voice and the unspeakable influence of cancioÌn ranchera on Hollywood punk / Michelle Gabell-PallaÌn -- Of wolves and vibrancy: a brief exploration of the marriage made in hell between folk music, dead cultures, myth, and highly technical modern extreme metal / Scott Seward -- The new market affair: media pranks, the music industrys last big gold rush, and the hunt for hits in the Shenandoah valley / Kembrew Mcleod -- All that is solid melts into schmaltz: poptimism vs. the guilty displeasure / Carl Wilson.
9780822350996 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822351085 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2011048245
Music--Social aspects--History--20th century.
Music--Social aspects--History--21st century.
Popular music--History and criticism.
ML3916 / .P673 2012
781.64/159