Mapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary Theory

Swiss, Thomas; John Sloop; Andrew Herman [editors]

ISBN 10: 157718078X / ISBN 13: 9781577180784

Verlag: Blackwell Publishers, 1998

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Mapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary Theory
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 157718078X
• ISBN-13: 9781577180784
• Einband: Trade Paperback
• Auflage: 1st Edition.
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Music
  • Reference
  • Social Science

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

One of the most vibrant and exciting new areas of academia inquiry falls under the cross disciplinary category of cultural studies. Within this field, popular music has been commonly analyzed to understand our world through the social dynamics, cultural production and consumption of popular music. Recent works on popular music studies examine the institutional and economic limitations that define popular music. Other works have addressed the textual aspects; representations and symbolic meaning in popular music as reflected in contemporary society. Other books look solely at the phenomenon of fandom and music subcultures. This collection cuts across all these ways of analyzing culture and is done through looking at spaces of noise and places of music. Included in this volume are some of the best cultural theorists and their reflections on modern life through music and representation.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thomas Swiss is Humanities Endowment Professor of English and Associate Chair at Drake University. He is a published poet and literary critic with works appearing in The New York Times Book Review, Iowa Review and the American Scholar.
Andrew Herman is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Drake University. He specializes in the study of popular culture and society.
John M. Sloop is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University. His interests include cultural representation in the media, music and cyberspace.