Pop Music, Pop Culture - Hardcover

Rojek, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745642632 ISBN 13: 9780745642635

Publisher: Polity, 2011

Synopsis

Pop Music, Pop Culture A comprehensive guide to understanding pop music. It provides a survey of the field and a description of core concepts. It describes theoretical approaches to the analysis of pop. It includes an investigation of the revolutionary changes in the production, exchange and consumption of pop music that are underway. Full description

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Product Description:

Popular Music and Popular Culture offers readers a comprehenisve guide to understanding pop music today. It provides a clear survey of the field and description of core concepts. The main theoretical approaches to the analysis of pop are described and critically assessed.

Review:

"This book's conclusion is like a pop song that ends with an unexpected major chord."
Steven Poole, The Guardian

"This is an indispensable systematisation of pop music cultural theory incorporating a vast sweep of references."
Jon Stewart, Brighton Institute of Modern Music, for Times Higher Education "What Are You Reading?"

"This well-organized and well-written book takes a sweeping look at various approaches to the study of popular music, including a musicological one ... An excellent learning tool and a fantastic contribution to the literature."
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"'Pop' is popular with huge listening audiences and not with many music critics - not even as a category to describe a big segment of popular music. Chris Rojek challenges standard ways of dividing the commercial from the authentic and the light from the serious. He does this by a creative engagement with theory and by systematic analysis of issues from modes of distribution to subcultures, the power of record companies, and the nature of collaborative labor and joint authorship. His book is a must-read intervention for all of cultural studies."
Craig Calhoun, New York University

"Joining extraordinary empirical range with shrewd, unflinching theoretical judgment, Rojek has produced a major sociological work on contemporary popular culture. Even as Pop Music, Pop Culture explores the rapidly shifting technological and economic infrastucture of music, Rojek shows us how music connects us to structures of meaning and feeling, and how in a mobile and de-territoralized world, popular music remains ever more important for that."
Jeff Alexander, Yale University

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0745642632
• ISBN 13: 9780745642635
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216