Popular Music and Society - Brossura

Longhurst, Brian

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ISBN 10: 0745614647 ISBN 13: 9780745614649

Casa editrice: Polity Pr, 1995

Riassunto

• A new edition of a popular and well respected textbook.
• Has been thoroughly revised and updated, with over a third of the book being new material and including a new final chapter on new technologies and everyday life consumption of music.
• Pitched at an introductory level, with lots of examples, extracts and figures for illustration.
• Is designed to map as required reading on popular music courses, which are usually found in media and cultural studies or sociology departments.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

A thoughtful and systematic introduction, full of up–to–date information, this book speaks simultaneously to students of socio–musical analysis and to all of us for whom music matters.

Finally! A comprehensive and comprehensible textbook on popular music. It not only provides a good overview of the state of the field for anyone interested in popular culture and mass media, it should also help bring popular music studies into the university classroom as a serious and necessary topic.
Professor Lawrence Grossberg, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This book provides an up–to–date introduction to the study of popular music. It is written in the belief that the analysis of popular music needs to be informed by wider debates in sociology and cultural studies.

The book examines the ways in which popular music is produced, structured as text, and understood and used by audiences. It includes overviews and critiques of general theories, outlines of the most important empirical studies, and data on the contemporary production and consumption of popular music.

Drawing on the theories of Adorno and Weber, Longhurst examines the contemporary organization of the music industry, the social production of music, and the effects of technological change on production. The history and politics of popular music are discussed, as are the connections of popular music and sexuality. Issues such as authenticity, stemming from the debates around black music, are addressed, and several
different ways of studying the text of popular music are reviewed. The literature on sub culture and music is looked at in the context of an examination of the audience for pop music. Developing work on fans is considered, as are contemporary approaches which problematize relationships of production and consumption.

Clearly written and well illustrated, popular music and society will be and excellent textbook for students in the sociology of culture, cultural studies, and media am d communication studies.

L'autore:

Brian Longhurst is lecturer in sociology at the University of Salford. His previous books include Karl Mannheim and the Contemporary Sociology of Knowledge (1989) and Discourse, Power and Justice: A new Approach to the Socilogy of Imprisonment (co-author, 1994).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Polity Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0745614647
• ISBN 13: 9780745614649
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 296