Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture

Original essays by leading scholars in the field of popular music studies map the competing perspectives on the key terms of contemporary debates on popular music and culture. Each essay describes the history of continuities and conflicts in a term's meaning, situating the writer's own position on the term in that history of debate.Providing a invaluable overview of the current state of popular music discourse, the collection will be useful both to those new to the study of popular music and those already well-versed in popular music and cultural studies.

Bruce Horner has degrees in both music and English. His essays on song criticism have appeared in such journals as Mosaic, Writing on the Edge, and the Journal of Musicology. He is Associate Professor of English at Drake University, where he teaches courses on song criticism.

Thomas Swiss has had essays published in Popular Music, Postmodern Culture, New England Review, and The New York Times Book Review. His most recent books are Rough Cut, a collection of poems (1997), and the co-edited Mapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary Theory (Blackwell, 1997). He teaches courses on music and contemporary culture at Drake University, where he is Center for the Humanities Professor.

List of Contributors

vii

Acknowledgments

xi

Putting It into Words: Key Terms for Studying Popular Music

1

(2)

Bruce Horner

Thomas Swiss

Part I Locating Popular Music in Culture

3

(108)

Ideology

5

(13)

Lucy Green

Discourse

18

(17)

Bruce Horner

Histories

35

(11)

Gilbert B. Rodman

Institutions

46

(11)

David Sanjek

Politics

57

(14)

Robin Balliger

Race

71

(14)

Russell A. Potter

Gender

85

(16)

Holly Kruse

Youth

101

(10)

Deena Weinstein

Part II Locating Culture in Popular Music

111

(140)

Popular

113

(11)

Anahid Kassabian

Music

124

(17)

David Brackett

Form

141

(15)

Richard Middleton

Text

156

(22)

John Shepherd

Images

178

(10)

Cynthia Fuchs

Performance

188

(11)

David Shumway

Authorship

199

(10)

Will Straw

Technology

209

(16)

Paul Theberge

Business

225

(14)

Mark Fenster

Thomas Swiss

Scenes

239

(12)

Sara Cohen

Index

251

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