TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weisbard,Eric
TI  - Pop when the world falls apart: music in the shadow of doubt 
SN  - 9780822350996 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - ML3916 .P673 2012
U1  - 781.64/159 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Durham and London
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Music
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Popular music
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - 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
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