Settling the Pop Score: Pop Texts and Identity Politics (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Settling the Pop Score: Pop Texts and Identity Politics (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) Book

Arguing that music not only affects our identities but shapes them, this work explores the interpretation of popular music within a broad, interdisciplinary framework of musicology. It examines the functions of pop music within a constantly shifting social plane from the 1980s onwards, suggesting various approaches for the analysis of pop music. The author examines selected case-studies, and asks what these "pop texts" have signified for him in his particular social context, leading him to considerhow musical meaning resides in social values. He focuses on the authorial identity and the problems associated with musicological practice,Read More

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  • 0754603520
  • 9780754603528
  • Stan Hawkins
  • 13 February 2002
  • Ashgate
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 334
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