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Understanding popular music culture / Roy Shuker.

By: Shuker, Roy.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013Edition: 4th ed.Description: vi, 282 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780415517133 (hardback); 9780415517171 (pbk.); 9780203094358 (ebook).Subject(s): Popular music -- History and criticism | Popular culture -- History -- 20th century
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-277) and index.

'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.

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