Microphone fiends : youth music & youth culture

Author(s)

Bibliographic Information

Microphone fiends : youth music & youth culture

edited by Andrew Ross & Tricia Rose

Routledge, 1994

  • : pb
  • : hb

Available at  / 20 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Essays and interviews

The essays originated in a conference held at Princeton University, Nov. 1992, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the American Studies Program

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hb ISBN 9780415909075

Description

Microphone Fiends, a collection of original essays and interviews, brings together some of the best known scholars, critics, journalists and performers to focus on the contemporary scene. It includes theoretical discussions of musical history along with social commentaries about genres like disco, metal and rap music, and case histories of specific movements like the Riot Grrls, funk clubbing in Rio de Janeiro, and the British rave scene.
Volume

: pb ISBN 9780415909082

Description

Microphone Fiends, a collection of original essays and interviews, brings together some of the best known scholars, critics, journalists and performers to focus on the contemporary scene. It includes theoretical discussions of musical history along with social commentaries about genres like disco, metal and rap music, and case histories of specific movements like the Riot Grrls, funk clubbing in Rio de Janeiro, and the British rave scene.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction, Andrew Ross
  • Part 1 Histories & Futures
  • Chapter 1 We Know What Time It Is, George Lipsitz
  • Chapter 2 Same As It Ever Was, Susan McClary
  • Chapter 3 Is Anybody Listening? Does Anybody Care?, Lawrence Grossberg
  • Chapter 4 Excerpt from Altered Spade: Readings in Race-Mutation Theory, Greg Tate
  • Part 2 Locating Hip Hop
  • Chapter 5 A Style Nobody Can Deal With, Tricia Rose
  • Chapter 6 Puerto Rican And Proud, Boyee!, Juan Flores
  • Chapter 7 The State of Rap, Jeffrey Louis Decker
  • Chapter 8 Contracting Rap, Tricia Rose
  • Part 3 The Dance Continuum
  • Chapter 9 In the Empire of the Beat, Walter Hughes
  • Chapter 10 Hello, Lady Kier Kirby
  • Chapter 11 Not a Mutant Turtle, Willi Ninja
  • Chapter 12 Nobody Wants a Part -Time Mother, Tricia Rose
  • Chapter 13 Moral Panic, the Media and British Rave Culture, Sarah Thornton
  • Chapter 14 The Funkification of Rio, George Yudice, Hermano ViannaJr.
  • Part 4 Rock, Rituals & Rights
  • Chapter 15 Rah, Rah, Sis-Boom-Bah, Robert Christgau
  • Chapter 16 Border Crossing in the U.S.A., Donna Gaines
  • Chapter 17 Highbrow, Lowbrow, Voodoo Aesthetics, Robert Walser
  • Chapter 18 Smells Like Teen Spirit, Joanne Gottlieb, Gayle Wald

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

Page Top