Author: Mark SlobinPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819562616
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
A fascinating study of subcultural musics and their cultural identities.
Subcultural Sounds
Author: Mark SlobinPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819562616
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
A fascinating study of subcultural musics and their cultural identities.
Subcultural Sounds : Micromusics of the West ( Music/culture )
Author: Mark SlobinSound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music
Author: Dr Ola JohanssonPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409488365
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Popular music is a cultural form much rooted in space and place. This book interprets the meaning of music from a spatial perspective and, in doing so it furthers our understanding of broader social relations and trends, including identity, attachment to place, cultural economies, social activism and politics. The book's editors have brought together a team of scholars to discuss the latest innovative thinking on music and its geographies, illustrated with a fascinating range of case studies from the USA, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia and Great Britain.
Wired for Sound
Author: Paul D. GreenePublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819565164
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Ethnographically-grounded studies of technology in global music.
The Subcultures Reader
Author: Ken GelderPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415127288
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The only collected work of its kind in the field, The Subcultures Reader brings together the most valuable and stimulating writings on subcultures from the Chicago School to the present day. All the articles have been specially selected and edited for inclusion in the Reader and are grouped in sections, each with an editor's introduction. There is also a general introduction to the collection, which maps out the field of subcultural studies. Providing an essential guide to the subject, it enables students and teachers to understand how subcultural studies developed, the range of work it encompasses, and provides potential future directions of study throughout the field.
Bollywood Sounds
Author: Jayson Beaster-JonesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199993475
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, commercial, and cinematic contexts. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones takes readers through the highly collaborative compositional process, highlighting the contributions of film directors, music directors (composers), lyricists, musicians, and singers in song production. Through close musical and multimedia analysis of more than twenty landmark compositions, Bollywood Sounds illustrates how the producers of Indian film songs have long mediated a variety of musical styles, instruments, and performance practices to create a uniquely cosmopolitan music genre. As an exploration of the music of seventy years of Hindi films, Bollywood Sounds provides long-term historical insights into film songs and their musical and cinematic conventions in ways that will appeal both to scholars and to newcomers to Indian cinema.
Sounds of the Citizens
Author: Anne M. GalvinPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826502881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Dancehall: it's simultaneously a source of raucous energy in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica; a way of life for a group of professional artists and music professionals; and a force of stability and tension within the community. Electronically influenced, relevant to urban Jamaicans, and highly danceable, dancehall music and culture forms a core of popular entertainment in the nation. As Anne Galvin reveals in Sounds of the Citizens, the rhythms of dancehall music reverberate in complicated ways throughout the lives of countless Jamaicans. Galvin highlights the unique alliance between the dancehall industry and community development efforts. As the central role of the state in supporting communities has diminished, the rise of private efforts such as dancehall becomes all the more crucial. The tension, however, between those involved in the industry and those within the neighborhoods is palpable and often dangerous. Amidst all this, individual Jamaicans interact with the dancehall industry and its culture to find their own paths of employment, social identity, and sexual mores. As Sounds of the Citizens illustrates, the world of entertainment in Jamaica is serious business and uniquely positioned as a powerful force within the community.
Culture in the Contemporary PRC
Author: Michel HockxPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521681247
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The culture of the People's Republic of China offers a unique blend of the popular, the political and the avant-garde. In no other country in the world are cultural products subjected to such strict censorship and at the same time consumed by such large numbers of people. This volume presents essays by scholars at the cutting edge of Chinese cultural studies, dealing with subjects ranging from advertising to poetry, from rock music to revolutionary museums, providing an authoritative and multi-faceted analysis of some of the world's most complex cultural phenomena.
Theorizing Sound Writing
Author: Deborah KapchanPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819576662
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup of scholars from anthropology, ethnomusicology, musicology, performance, and sound studies. The contributors write about sound in their ongoing work, while also making an intervention into the ethics of academic knowledge, one in which listening is the first step not only in translating sound into words but also in compassionate scholarship.
Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music
Author: Thomas L. BellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317052544
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Popular music is a cultural form much rooted in space and place. This book interprets the meaning of music from a spatial perspective and, in doing so it furthers our understanding of broader social relations and trends, including identity, attachment to place, cultural economies, social activism and politics. The book's editors have brought together a team of scholars to discuss the latest innovative thinking on music and its geographies, illustrated with a fascinating range of case studies from the USA, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia and Great Britain.