Redefining Mainstream Popular Music 9781136465314, 9780415807807

Redefining Mainstream Popular Music is a collection of seventeen essays that critically examines the idea of the "m

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Redefining Mainstream Popular Music
9781136465314, 9780415807807

Scritto durante l'esilio americano, e pubblicato nel 1941, il saggio "Sulla Popular Music" offre un'

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This book analyses the relationships between contemporary media and popular music, both via the mediation of music, and

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The popularity of the motion picture soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou? brought an extraordinary amount of attention

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When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from t

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Popular music is increasingly visible in government strategies and policies. While much has been written about the expan

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748617456); An accessible introduction to the study of popular music, this

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Particularly since the 1950s, cars and popular music have been constantly associated. As complementary goods and intertw

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In this book, native popular musicologists focus on their own popular music cultures from Germany, Austria and Switzerla

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From the storied ache of mbube harmonies of the '40s to the electronic boom of kwaito and the amapiano and house ex

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A critical analysis of issues and approaches in a variety of areas, ranging from the political economy of popular music

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