{"product_id":"key-terms-in-popular-music-and-culture-isbn-9780631212645","title":"Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture","description":"Original essays by leading scholars in the field of popular music studies map the competing perspectives on the key terms of contemporary debates on popular music and culture. Each essay describes the history of continuities and conflicts in a term's meaning, situating the writer's own position on the term in that history of debate. \u003cp\u003eProviding a invaluable overview of the current state of popular music discourse, the collection will be useful both to those new to the study of popular music and those already well-versed in popular music and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e  Acknowledgments. \u003cp\u003eNotes on contributors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Putting It Into Words: Key Terms for Studying Popular Music; Bruce Horner (Drake University) and Thomas Swiss (Drake University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Locating Popular Music in Culture:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Ideology: Lucy Green (University of London).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Discourse: Bruce Horner (Drake University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Histories: Gilbert Rodman (University of South Florida).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Institutions: David Sanjek (BMI Archives).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Politics: Robin Balliger (Stanford University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Race: Russell Potter (Rhode Island College).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Gender: Holly Kruse (La Salle University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Youth: Deena Weinstein (DePaul University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Locating Culture in Popular Music.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Popular: Anahid Kassabian (Fordham University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Music: David Brackett (SUNY Binghamton).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Form: Richard Middleton (University of Newcastle upon Tyne).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Text: John Shepherd (Carleton University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Images: Cynthia Fuchs (George Mason University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Performance: David Shumway (Carnegie Mellon University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Authorship: Will Straw (McGill University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Technology: Paul Theberge (Concordia University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Business: Mark Fenster (Yale Law School) and Thomas Swiss (Drake University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Scenes: Sara Cohen (University of Liverpool).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \"The book features an excellent roster of authors and will make a valuable companion to popular-music studies, histories and surveys\" \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eBruce Horner\u003c\/b\u003e has degrees in both music and English. His essays on song criticism have appeared in such journals as \u003ci\u003eMosaic,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWriting on the Edge,\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Musicology.\u003c\/i\u003e He is Associate Professor of English at Drake University, where he teaches courses on song criticism. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Swiss\u003c\/b\u003e has had essays published in \u003ci\u003ePopular Music, Postmodern Culture, New England Review,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review.\u003c\/i\u003e His most recent books are \u003ci\u003eRough Cut,\u003c\/i\u003e a collection of poems (1997), and the co-edited \u003ci\u003eMapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1997). He teaches courses on music and contemporary culture at Drake University, where he is Center for the Humanities Professor.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eKey Terms in Popular Music and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e presents eighteen original essays by leading scholars in the field of popular music studies. Each essay - drawing widely on work in feminist, postcolonial, and cultural studies and the disciplines of musicology and literary criticism - maps the competing perspectives on one of the key terms in ongoing debates on the meaning of popular music and culture, discusses the history of continuities and conflicts in its meaning, and presents the writer's own views on its meaning and how he or she has come to adopt such a position.  \u003cp\u003eThese essays combine to form a valuable overview of the state of popular music discourse at the end of the twentieth century. They will prove invaluable both to those new to the study of popular music and those already well-versed in popular music and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989497495781,"sku":"NP9780631212645","price":45.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631212645.jpg?v=1761784344","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/key-terms-in-popular-music-and-culture-isbn-9780631212645","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}