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Understanding popular music culture
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Title
Understanding popular music culture / Roy Shuker.
ISBN
0415419050 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0415419069 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415419055 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780415419062 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Edition
3rd ed.
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Physical Description
xi, 313 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Rev. ed. of: Understanding popular music. 2nd ed. 2001.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 14, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-305) and index.
Discography: p. 267-271.
Contents
'Every 1's a winner' : music as a cultural industry
'Pump up the volume' : music and technology
'I'm just a singer' : making music and the success continuum
'So you want to be a rock'n'roll star' : auteurs and stars
'Message understood'? : musical texts
'It's still rock'n'roll to me' : genres, covers and the canon
'Shop around' : retail, radio and the charts
'U got the look' : film, television and MTV
'On the cover of The Rolling Stone' : the music press
'My generation' : audiences, fans and collectors
'Sound of our town' : subcultures, sounds and scenes
'We are the world' : state music policy, globalization and national identity
'Pushin' too hard' : moral panics
'Revolution' : social change, conscience rock and identities.
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