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1 online resource (269 pages) |
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Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Ser |
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Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Co-editors' introduction: Backstories; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Blood sausage and the building blocks of memory; 2. Counting down the categories; 3. The instinctual narrative; 4. The Darwinian narrative; 5. The heroic narrative; 6. The ritual narrative; 7. The alluvial narrative; 8. The agoraphobic narrative; 9. The Manichean narrative; 10. The mythic narrative; Conclusion: Words escape me; Coda: Igniting love's burning coals; Works cited; Index |
| Summary |
How has the history of rock 'n' roll been toldHas it become formulaicOr remained, like the music itself, open to outside influencesWho have been the genre's primary historiansWhat common frameworks or sets of assumptions have music history narratives sharedAnd, most importantly, what is the cost of failing to question such assumptions "Stories We Could Tell:Putting Words to American Popular Music" identifies eight typical strategies used when critics and historians write about American popular music, and subjects each to forensic analysis. This posthumous book is a unique work of cultural historiography that analyses, catalogues, and contextualizes music writing in order to afford the reader new perspectives on the field of cultural production, and offer new ways of thinking about, and writing about, popular music |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Musical criticism -- United States
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Popular music -- Historiography -- United States
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Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism
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Musical criticism.
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Popular music -- Historiography.
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Musical criticism
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Popular music
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Popular music -- Historiography
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Halligan, Benjamin
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Duffett, Mark
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Attah, Tom
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| ISBN |
9781351333399 |
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1351333399 |
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9781351333382 |
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1351333380 |
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