Describes Herskovits' attempt to make sense of his life in an alien culture, and details what Kate Bush - known alternately as 'the barmiest bird in pop', has been up to in the silent decade - since the release of her last album. This is a b format version of the satirical novel and music biography.
This book addresses the controversy of whether there is a growing homogenization of the world's popluar music - the universal language of youth - or whether there is a continuing and perhaps ever increasing diversity of song styles and forms. The more conventional "cultural imperialism" hypothesis is tested. The focus is on how the process of popular music production is perceived by local musicians, who are immersed in overlapping international, national and local contexts of production. Reflections on theory, descriptions of local case studies, and interview data have been provided by the international Communication and Youth Culture Consortium and integrated by the authors in an attempt to understand how societal influences are tempered by and interpreted through cultural and semiotic codes as well as individual musicians' experiences and creative talents.
Originally published in 1972, and now updated to include Spector's work over the following three decades and the bizarre circumstances surrounding the shooting of Lana Clarkson at Spector's Los Angeles mansion in February 2003.
This exploration of the phenomena of Andy Warhol's influence on glitter rock and pop art reconceptualizes and re-evaluates many of the theoretical claims of subculture theory. Reconstructing Pop/Subculture provides an historical account of the tensions that arose in Western culture during the 1960s and 1970s between various factions which were forced to engage in explicit confrontations/dichotomies. Cagle proposes a theoretical framework that incorporates notions of productivity with reception and re-examines the critical relationships between style, youth culture, incorporation, hegemony and resistance. He focuses on the ways in which fans take up trends presented through the mass media and adopt them through disingenuous practices.
A Romp through the High-Flying Texas Music and Literary Era of the Fifties to the Seventies
Jay Milner was part of a generation of Texas writers whose heyday lasted from the late 1950s through the 1970s. The group was comprised of Billie Lee Brammer, Edwin "Bud" Shrake, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, Larry L. King, Pete Gent, and (peripherally) Larry McMurtry and Willie Morris. From the musical scene there were "picker poets," as Milner ......
With contributions by musicians, music critics, scholars and people in the music industry, this book discusses popular music and the process by which it has been mythologized by its audience, its chroniclers and its analysts.
With contributions by musicians, music critics, scholars and people in the music industry, this book discusses popular music and the process by which it has been mythologized by its audience, its chroniclers and its analysts.
