Stories We Could Tell: Putting Words to American Popular Music

How has the history of rock 'n' roll been toldHas it become formulaicOr remained, like the music itself, open to outside influencesWho have been the genre's primary historiansWhat common frameworks or sets of assumptions have music history narratives sharedAnd, most importantly, what...

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Main Author: Sanjek, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton Routledge 2018
Series:Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Ser
Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Ser
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:How has the history of rock 'n' roll been toldHas it become formulaicOr remained, like the music itself, open to outside influencesWho have been the genre's primary historiansWhat common frameworks or sets of assumptions have music history narratives sharedAnd, most importantly, what is the cost of failing to question such assumptions "Stories We Could Tell:Putting Words to American Popular Music" identifies eight typical strategies used when critics and historians write about American popular music, and subjects each to forensic analysis. This posthumous book is a unique work of cultural historiography that analyses, catalogues, and contextualizes music writing in order to afford the reader new perspectives on the field of cultural production, and offer new ways of thinking about, and writing about, popular music
Physical Description:1 online resource (269 pages)
ISBN:9781351333399
1351333399
9781351333382
1351333380

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