Voicing the popular : on the subjects of popular music
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Voicing the popular : on the subjects of popular music
Routledge, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-310) and indexes
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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.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: 'We're Low, We're Low, We're Very, Very Low' 2 Through a Mask Darkly: Voices of Black Folk 3 Appropriating the Phallus? Female Voices and the Law-of-the-Father 4 Once More with Feeling: On the Subjects of Repetition 5 The Real Thing? The Spectre of Authenticity Notes Bibliography
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