Understanding popular music culture / Roy Shuker.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shuker, Roy
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
Edition:Fourth edition.
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Physical Description:vi, 282 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 'Every 1's a winner' : music as a cultural industry
  • 'Pump up the volume' : music and technology
  • 'I'm just a singer' : making music and the success continuum
  • 'So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star' : auteurs and stars
  • 'Message understood' : textual analysis and popular musicology
  • 'It's just rock 'n' roll to me' : genre, authenticity, and the canon
  • 'Shop around' : marketing and mediation
  • 'U got the look' : from film to video games : music and pictures
  • 'On the cover of The Rolling Stone' : the music press
  • 'My generation' : identity and consumption : audiences, fans, and social networks
  • 'Sound of our town' : subcultures, sounds, and scenes
  • 'Revolution' : social change, conscience rock, and identity politics
  • 'Pushin' too hard' : moral panics
  • 'We are the world' : state music policy.