Middleton Richard - Voicing The Popular On The Subjects Of Popular Music - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: How does popular music produce its subject? How does it produce us as subjects? More specifically how does it do this through voice - - through "giving voice"? And how should we understand this subject - - "the people" - - that it voices into existence? Is it singular or plural? What is its history and what is its future? Voicing the Popular draws on approaches from musical interpretation cultural history social theory and psychoanalysis to explore key topics in the field including race gender authenticity and repetition. Taking most of his examples from across the past hundred years of popular music development - - but relating them to the eighteenth - and nineteenth - century "pre - history" - - Richard Middleton constructs an argument that relates "the popular" to the unfolding of modernity itself. Voicing the Popular renews the case for ambitious theory in musical and cultural studies and against the grain of much contemporary thought insists on the progressive potential of a politics of the Low.
Title: Voicing The Popular On The Subjects Of Popular Music
Author(s): Middleton Richard
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415975902
Pages: 352 Pages, 15 Line Drawings, Black And White
Publication Date: 5/3/2006
Category: Cultural Studies