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Rock: The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock

Rock: The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock

This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F. Moore's ground-breaking book now co-authored with Remy Martin incorporates new material on rock music theory style change and the hermeneutic method developed in Moore’s Song Means (2012). An even larger array of musicians is discussed bringing the book right into the 21st century. Rock's 'primary text' – its sounds – is the focus of attention here. The authors argue for the development of a musicology particular to rock within the context of the background to the genres the beat and rhythm and blues styles of the early 1960s 'progressive' rock punk rock metal and subsequent styles. They also explore the fundamental issue of rock as a medium for self-expression and the relationship of this to changing musical styles. Rock: The Primary Text remains innovative in its exploration of an aesthetics of rock. | Rock: The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock

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Crow Indian Rock Art Indigenous Perspectives and Interpretations

Crow Indian Rock Art Indigenous Perspectives and Interpretations

This absorbing volume examines the cultural role of rock art for the Apsáalooke or Crow people of the northern Great Plains. Their extensive rock art developed within the changing cultural life of the tribe. Individual knowledge and meaning of rock art panels however relies as much on collective concepts of landscape as it does on shared memories of historic Crow culture. Using this idea as a focus this book:-introduces Plains Indian rock art of the 19th century as we know about it from its own stylistic conventions ethnographic data and historical accounts;-investigates the contemporary Crow discourse about rock art and its place within the cultural landscape and archaeological record;-argues that cultural concepts of space and place are fundamental to the way rock art is discussed experienced and interpreted. | Crow Indian Rock Art Indigenous Perspectives and Interpretations

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Ontologies of Rock Art Images Relational Approaches and Indigenous Knowledges

Ontologies of Rock Art Images Relational Approaches and Indigenous Knowledges

Ontologies of Rock Art is the first publication to explore a wide range of ontological approaches to rock art interpretation constituting the basis for groundbreaking studies on Indigenous knowledges relational metaphysics and rock imageries. The book contributes to the growing body of research on the ontology of images by focusing on five main topics: ontology as a theoretical framework; the development of new concepts and methods for an ontological approach to rock art; the examination of the relationships between ontology images and Indigenous knowledges; the development of relational models for the analysis of rock images; and the impact of ontological approaches on different rock art traditions across the world. Generating new avenues of research in ontological theory political ontology and rock art research this collection will be relevant to archaeologists anthropologists and philosophers. In the context of an increasing interest in Indigenous ontologies the volume will also be of interest to scholars in Indigenous studies. Chapter 14 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license available at https://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/edit/10. 4324/9780429321863/ontologies-rock-art-oscar-moro-abad%C3%ADa-martin-porr?context=ubx&refId=3766b051-4754-4339-925c-2a262a505074 | Ontologies of Rock Art Images Relational Approaches and Indigenous Knowledges

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Status Quo: Mighty Innovators of 70s Rock

Status Quo: Mighty Innovators of 70s Rock

Status Quo were one of the most successful influential and innovative bands of the 1970s. During the first half of the decade they wrote recorded and performed a stream of inventive and highly complex rock compositions developed 12 bar forms and techniques in new and fascinating ways and affected important musical and cultural trends. But despite global success on stage and in the charts they were maligned by the UK music press who often referred to them as lamebrained three-chord wonders and shunned by the superstar Disk Jockeys of the era who refused to promote their music. As a result Status Quo remain one of the most misunderstood and underrated bands in the history of popular music. Cope redresses that misconception through a detailed study of the band’s music and live performances related musical and cultural subtopics and interviews with key band members. The band is reinstated as a serious artistic and creative phenomenon of the 1970s scene and shown to be vital contributors to the evolution of rock. | Status Quo: Mighty Innovators of 70s Rock

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Death and the Rock Star

Death and the Rock Star

The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012) and the ’resurrection’ of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music festival in April 2012 have focused the media spotlight on the relationship between popular music fame and death. If the phrase ’sex drugs and rock’n’roll’ ever qualified a lifestyle it has left many casualties in its wake and with the ranks of dead musicians growing over time so the types of death involved and the reactions to them have diversified. Conversely as many artists who fronted the rock’n’roll revolution of the 1950s and 1960s continue to age the idea of dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse (which gave rise for instance to the myth of the ’27 Club’) no longer carries the same resonance that it once might have done. This edited collection explores the reception of dead rock stars ’rock’ being taken in the widest sense as the artists discussed belong to the genres of rock’n’roll (Elvis Presley) disco (Donna Summer) pop and pop-rock (Michael Jackson Whitney Houston Amy Winehouse) punk and post-punk (GG Allin Ian Curtis) rap (Tupac Shakur) folk (the Dutchman André Hazes) and ’world’ music (Fela Kuti). When music artists die their fellow musicians producers fans and the media react differently and this book brings together their intertwining modalities of reception. The commercial impact of death on record sales copyrights and print media is considered and the different justifications by living artists for being involved with the dead through covers sampling and tributes. The cultural representation of dead singers is investigated through obituaries biographies and biopics observing that posthumous fame provides coping mechanisms for fans and consumers of popular culture more generally to deal with the knowledge of their own mortality. Examining the contrasting ways in which male and female dead singers are portrayed in the media the book | Death and the Rock Star

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Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet is one of the seminal albums in rock history. Arguably it not only marks the advent of the ‘mature’ sound of the Rolling Stones but lays out a new blueprint for an approach to blues-based rock music that would endure for several decades. From its title to the dark themes that pervade some of its songs Beggars Banquet reflected and helped define a moment marked by violence decay and upheaval. It marked a move away from the artistic sonic flourishes of psychedelic rock towards an embrace of foundational streams of American music – blues country – that had always underpinned the music of the Stones but assumed new primacy in their music after 1968. This move coincided with and anticipated the ‘roots’ moves that many leading popular music artists made as the 1960s turned toward a new decade; but unlike many of their peers whose music grew more ‘soft’ and subdued as they embraced traditional styles the music and attitude of the Stones only grew harder and more menacing and their status as representatives of the dark underside of the 60s rock counterculture assumed new solidity. For the Rolling Stones the 1960s ended and the 1970s began with the release of this album in 1968. | Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

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The Poetry of Punk The Meaning Behind Punk Rock and Hardcore Lyrics

The Poetry of Punk The Meaning Behind Punk Rock and Hardcore Lyrics

Punk bands have produced an abundance of poetic texts some crude some elaborate in the form of song lyrics. These lyrics are an ideal means by which to trace the developments and explain the conflicts and schisms that have shaped and continue to shape punk culture. They can be described as the community’s collective ‘poetic voice ’ and they come in many different forms. Their themes range from romantic love to emotional distress to radical politics. Some songs are intended to entertain some to express strong feelings some to provoke some to spread awareness and some to foment unrest. Most have an element of confrontation of kicking against the pricks. Socially and epistemologically they play a central role in the scene’s internal discourse shaping communities and individual identities. The Poetry of Punk is an investigation into the Anglophone punk culture specifically in the UK and the US where punk originated in the mid-1970s its focus being on the song lyrics written and performed by punk rock and hardcore artists. | The Poetry of Punk The Meaning Behind Punk Rock and Hardcore Lyrics

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Never Again Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982

Never Again Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982

By 1976 the National Front had become the fourth largest party in Britain. In a context of national decline racism and fears that the country was collapsing into social unrest the Front won 19 per cent of the vote in elections in Leicester and 100 000 votes in London. In response an anti-fascist campaign was born which combined mass action to deprive the Front of public platforms with a mass cultural movement. Rock Against Racism brought punk and reggae bands together as a weapon against the right. At Lewisham in August 1977 fighting between the far right and its opponents saw two hundred people arrested and fifty policemen injured. The press urged the state to ban two rival sets of dangerous extremists. But as the papers took sides so did many others who determined to oppose the Front. Through the Anti-Nazi League hundreds of thousands of people painted out racist graffiti distributed leaflets and persuaded those around them to vote against the right. This combined movement was one of the biggest mass campaigns that Britain has ever seen. This book tells the story of the National Front and the campaign which stopped it. | Never Again Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982

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Art Into Pop

Art Into Pop

This book first published in 1987 tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to recording studio it focuses on two key moments – the early 1960s when art students like John Lennon and Eric Clapton begin to play their own versions of American rock and blues and inflected youth music with Bohemian dreams and the late 1970s when punk musicians emerged from design courses and fashion departments to disrupt what were by then art-rock routines. Sixties rock Bohemians and seventies pop Situationists were in their different ways trying to solve the art students’ perennial problem – how to make a living from their art. Art Into Pop shows how this problem has been shaped by the history of British art education from its nineteenth-century origins to current arguments about ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ training. In their simultaneous pursuit of authenticity and artifice art school musicians exemplify the postmodern condition the collapse of any distinction between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture the confusions of personal and commercial creativity. And so high pop theorists rub shoulders here with low pop practitioners experimental musicians debate avant-garde ideas with corporate packagers and artistic integrity becomes a matter of making oneself up.

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The Songs of Joni Mitchell Gender Performance and Agency

The Songs of Joni Mitchell Gender Performance and Agency

An unorthodox musician from the start singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's style of composing performing and of playing (and tuning) the guitar is unique. In the framework of sexual difference and the gendered discourses of rock this immediately begs the questions: are Mitchell's songs specifically feminine and if so to what extent and why? Anne Karppinen addresses this question focusing on the kind of music and lyrics Mitchell writes the representation of men and women in her lyrics how her style changes and evolves over time and how cultural context affects her writing. Linked to this are the concepts of subjectivity and authorship: when a singer-songwriter sings a song in the first person about whom are they actually singing? Mitchell offers a fascinating study for the songs she writes and sings are intricately woven from the strands of her own life. Using methods from critical discourse analysis this book examines recorded performances of songs from Mitchell's first nine studio albums and the contemporary reviews of these albums in Anglo-American rock magazines. In one of the only books to discuss Mitchell's recorded performances with a focus that extends beyond the seminal album Blue Karppinen explores the craft of Mitchell's songwriting and her own attitudes towards it as well as the dynamics and politics of rock criticism in the 1960s and 1970s more generally. | The Songs of Joni Mitchell Gender Performance and Agency

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The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education

The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education

Popular music is a growing presence in education formal and otherwise from primary school to postgraduate study. Programmes courses and modules in popular music studies popular music performance songwriting and areas of music technology are becoming commonplace across higher education. Additionally specialist pop/rock/jazz graded exam syllabi such as RockSchool and Trinity Rock and Pop have emerged in recent years meaning that it is now possible for school leavers in some countries to meet university entry requirements having studied only popular music. In the context of teacher education classroom teachers and music-specialists alike are becoming increasingly empowered to introduce popular music into their classrooms. At present research in Popular Music Education lies at the fringes of the fields of music education ethnomusicology community music cultural studies and popular music studies. The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Music Education is the first book-length publication that brings together a diverse range of scholarship in this emerging field. Perspectives include the historical sociological pedagogical musicological axiological reflexive critical philosophical and ideological. | The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education

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The Music and Noise of the Stooges 1967-71 Lost in the Future

The Music and Noise of the Stooges 1967-71 Lost in the Future

The Stooges have come to be considered one of the most important rock bands especially in regard to the formation of punk. By emphasizing their influence on later developments however critics tend to overlook the significance of the band in their own context and era. The Music and Noise of the Stooges 1967-71 addresses such oversights. Utilizing the lenses of cultural criticism and sound studies (drawing on the thinking of Theodor Adorno Jacques Attali and Pierre Bourdieu among others) as well as contemporary and archival texts this extensively researched study analyzes the trajectory and musical output of the original Stooges. During the late 1960s and early 70s a moment when the dissonant energy of rock’n’roll was more than ever being subsumed by the record industry the Stooges were initially commercial failures with the band’s noisy music and singer Iggy Pop’s bizarre onstage performances confusing their label Elektra Records. As Begnal argues the Stooges embodied a tension between market forces and an innovative avant-garde artistic vision as they sought to liberate audiences from passivity and stimulate an immanent joy in the rock’n’roll moment. This book offers a fresh perspective on the Stooges that will appeal both to rock fans and scholars (especially in the fields of cultural studies the long Sixties musicology punk studies and performance studies). | The Music and Noise of the Stooges 1967-71 Lost in the Future

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Philosophy of Western Music A Contemporary Introduction

Philosophy of Western Music A Contemporary Introduction

This is the first comprehensive book-length introduction to the philosophy of Western music that fully integrates consideration of popular music and hybrid musical forms especially song. Its author Andrew Kania begins by asking whether Bob Dylan should even have been eligible for the Nobel Prize in Literature given that he is a musician. This motivates a discussion of music as an artistic medium and what philosophy has to contribute to our thinking about music. Chapters 2-5 investigate the most commonly defended sources of musical value: its emotional power its form and specifically musical features (such as pitch rhythm and harmony). In chapters 6-9 Kania explores issues arising from different musical practices particularly work-performance (with a focus on classical music) improvisation (with a focus on jazz) and recording (with a focus on rock and pop). Chapter 10 examines the intersection of music and morality. The book ends with a consideration of what ultimately music is. Key Features Uses popular-song examples throughout but also discusses a range of musical traditions (notably rock pop classical and jazz) Explains both philosophical and musical terms when they are first introduced Provides publicly accessible Spotify playlists of the musical examples discussed in the book Each chapter begins with an overview and ends with questions for testing comprehension and stimulating further thought along with suggestions for further reading | Philosophy of Western Music A Contemporary Introduction

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Internal Family Systems Therapy Supervision and Consultation

Internal Family Systems Therapy Supervision and Consultation

Internal Family Systems Therapy: Supervision and Consultation showcases the skills of Richard C. Schwartz and other leading IFS consultants and supervisors. Using unique case material models and diagrams each contributor illustrates IFS techniques that assist clinicians in unblending and accessing Self-energy and Self-leadership. The book features examples of clinical work with issues such as bias faith sexuality and sexual hurts. Individual chapters focus on therapist groups such as Black Therapists Rock and on work with specific populations including children and their caregivers veterans eating disordered clients therapists with serious illnesses and couples. This thought-provoking book offers an opportunity for readers to reflect on their own supervision and consultation (both the giving and receiving of it). It explores what is possible and preferable at different stages of development when using the IFS model. | Internal Family Systems Therapy Supervision and Consultation

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Made in Yugoslavia Studies in Popular Music

Made in Yugoslavia Studies in Popular Music

Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history sociology and musicology of popular music in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav region across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book consists of chapters by leading scholars and covers the major figures styles and social contexts of music in the region that for most of the past century was known as Yugoslavia. Exploring the role played by music in Yugoslav art culture social movements and discourses of statehood this book offers a gateway into scholarly explanation of a key region in Eastern Europe. An introduction provides an overview and background on popular music in Yugoslavia followed by chapters in four thematic sections: Zabavna-Pop; Rock Punk and New Wave; Narodna (Folk) and Neofolk Music; and the Politics of Popular Music Under Socialism. | Made in Yugoslavia Studies in Popular Music

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Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson is an American–European director who is also a performer installation artist writer designer of light and much more besides – a crossover polymath who dissolves both generic and geographical boundaries and is a precursor of globalisation in the arts. This second edition of Robert Wilson combines: an analysis of his main productions situated in their American and European socio-cultural and political contexts a focused detailed study of Wilson’s pathbreaking Einstein on the Beach a study of Pushkin's Fairy Tales as the foremost example of his folk-rock music theatre in the twenty-first century an exploration of his ‘visual book’ workshop and rehearsal methods and collaborative procedures a study of his aesthetic principles and the elements of composition that distinguish his directorial approach a series of practical exercises for students and practitioners highlighting Wilson’s technique. As a first step towards critical understanding and as an initial exploration before going on to further primary research Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today’s student.

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What Can We Know About Sex? A Lacanian Study of Sex and Gender

What Can We Know About Sex? A Lacanian Study of Sex and Gender

Despite the progress made by psychoanalysis since Freud’s discovery of the sexual nature of the unconscious analysts have tended to explore psychical causality independently of the role of the biological factors at play in sexuality. What Can We Know About Sex? explains how Lacan’s work allows us to make new links between the sexual laws of discourse gender and what Freud called the 'biological rock' in human life allowing a new perspective not only on the history of the sexual couple but on contemporary developments of sexuality in the 21st century. Gisèle Chaboudez’s insights demonstrate that the old phallic logic that has been so dominant is now in the process of being dismantled opening up the question of how people can relate sexually and what forms of jouissance are at stake for contemporary subjectivity. What Can We Know About Sex? will be a key text for analysts academics and students of feminism gender and sexuality. | What Can We Know About Sex? A Lacanian Study of Sex and Gender

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Communities of Musical Practice

Communities of Musical Practice

Every day people come together to make music. Whether amateur or professional young or old jazz enthusiasts or rock stars what is common to all of these musical groups is the potential to create communities of musical practice (CoMP). Such communities are created through practices: ways of engaging rules membership roles identities and learning that is both shared through collective musical endeavour and situated within certain sociocultural contexts. Ailbhe Kenny investigates CoMP as a rich model for community engagement musical participation and transformation in music education. This book is the first to produce a valid and reliable in-depth study of music communities using a community of practice (CoP) framework - in this case focusing on the social process of musical learning. Employing case study research within Ireland three illustrations from particular sociocultural genre-specific economic and geographical contexts are examined: an adult amateur jazz ensemble a youth choir and an online Irish traditional music web platform. Each case is analysed as a distinct community and phenomenon offering sharpened understandings of each sub-culture with specific findings presented for each community.

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Recognizing Race and Ethnicity Power Privilege and Inequality

Recognizing Race and Ethnicity Power Privilege and Inequality

This best-selling textbook explains the current state of research in the sociology of race/ ethnicity emphasizing white privilege the social construction of race and the newest theoretical perspectives for understanding race and ethnicity. It is designed to engage students with an emphasis on topics that are meaningful to their lives including sports popular culture interracial relationships and biracial/multiracial identities and families. The fourth edition comes at a pivotal time in the politics of race and identity. Fitzgerald includes vital new discussions on race and technology attacks on critical race theory and the teaching of race racism and privilege in schools and ongoing police violence against people of color. Prominent attention is given to immigration and the discourse surrounding it policing and minority populations and the criminal justice system. Using the latest available data the author examines the present and future of generational change. New case studies include athletes and racial justice activism removal of Confederate monuments updates on Black Lives Matter and Native American activism at Standing Rock. | Recognizing Race and Ethnicity Power Privilege and Inequality

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The Science of Climbing and Mountaineering

The Science of Climbing and Mountaineering

This is the first book to explore in depth the science of climbing and mountaineering. Written by a team of leading international sport scientists clinicians and climbing practitioners it covers the full span of technical disciplines including rock climbing ice climbing indoor climbing and mountaineering across all scientific fields from physiology and biomechanics to history psychology medicine motor control skill acquisition and engineering. Striking a balance between theory and practice this uniquely interdisciplinary study provides practical examples and illustrative data to demonstrate the strategies that can be adopted to promote safety best practice injury prevention recovery and mental preparation. Divided into six parts the book covers all essential aspects of the culture and science of climbing and mountaineering including: physiology and medicine biomechanics motor control and learning psychology equipment and technology. Showcasing the latest cutting-edge research and demonstrating how science translates into practice The Science of Climbing and Mountaineering is essential reading for all advanced students and researchers of sport science biomechanics and skill acquisition as well as all active climbers and adventure sport coaches.

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Popular Music Culture The Key Concepts

Popular Music Culture The Key Concepts

Now in its fifth edition this popular A–Z student reference book provides a comprehensive survey of key ideas and concepts in popular music culture examining the social and cultural aspects of popular music. Fully revised with extended coverage of the music industries sociological concepts and additional references to reading listening and viewing throughout the new edition expands on the foundations of popular music culture tracing the impact of digital technology and changes in the way in which music is created manufactured marketed and consumed. The concept of metagenres remains a central part of the book: these are historically socially and geographically situated umbrella musical categories each embracing a wide range of associated genres and subgenres. New or expanded entries include: Charts Digital music culture Country music Education Ethnicity Race Gender Grime Heritage History Indie Synth pop Policy Punk rock and Streaming. Popular Music Culture: The Key Concepts is an essential reference tool for students studying the social and cultural dimensions of popular music. | Popular Music Culture The Key Concepts

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Piracy in the Levant 1827-8

Piracy in the Levant 1827-8

A selection from the papers of the commander in chief of the Mediterranean station Sir Edward Codrington which shows the British government’s determined policy following on from the bombardment of Algiers to try to end attacks on trade in that sea. The target on this occasion was ‘privateers’ operating out of the impoverished Aegean islands whose inhabitants had long used these methods to sustain their economies and who were exploiting the opportunities created by the Greek war of independence from the Turks to do so. Codrington tackled the problem in two ways – by bringing pressure on the Greek provisional government and on local authorities to control their own subjects and by direct action where they failed to act. This volume reproduces the reports of the frigate and sloop captains who carried out this task culminating in the destruction of the pirate fleet and military occupation of their stronghold at Grabusa Crete where the frigate Cambrian was wrecked on a rock at the harbour entrance. These operations are a striking example of the enforcement of the Pax Britannica on an unwilling population. | Piracy in the Levant 1827-8

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Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music

Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music

This book explores the highly-valued and often highly-charged ideal of authenticity in hip-hop — what it is why it is important and how it affects the day-to-day life of rap artists. By analyzing the practices identities and struggles that shape the lives of rappers in the London scene the study exposes the strategies and tactics that hip-hop practitioners engage in to negotiate authenticity on an everyday basis. In-depth interviews and fieldwork provide insight into the nature of authenticity in global hip-hop and the dynamics of cultural appropriation globalization marketization and digitization through a combined set of ethnographic theoretical and cultural analysis. Despite growing attention to authenticity in popular music this book is the first to offer a comprehensive theoretical model explaining the reflexive approaches hip-hop artists adopt to ‘live out’ authenticity in everyday life. This model will act as a blueprint for new studies in global hip-hop and be generative in other authenticity research and for other music genres such as punk rock and roll country and blues that share similar issues surrounding contested artist authenticity. | Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music

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The Archaeology of Art Materials Practices Affects

The Archaeology of Art Materials Practices Affects

How can archaeologists interpret ancient art and images if they do not treat them as symbols or signifiers of identity? Traditional approaches to the archaeology of art have borrowed from the history of art and the anthropology of art by focusing on iconography meaning communication and identity. This puts the archaeology of art at a disadvantage as an understanding of iconography and meaning requires a detailed knowledge of historical or ethnographic context unavailable to many archaeologists. Rather than playing to archaeology’s weaknesses the authors argue that an archaeology of art should instead play to archaeology’s strength: the material character of archaeological evidence. Using case studies - examining rock art figurines beadwork murals coffin decorations sculpture and architecture from Europe the Americas Asia Australia and north Africa -the authors develop an understanding of the affective and effective nature of ancient art and imagery. An analysis of a series of material-based practices from gesture and improvisation to miniaturisation and gigantism assembly and disassembly and the use of distinctions in colour enable key concepts such as style and meaning to be re-imagined as affective practices. Recasting the archaeology of art as the study of affects offers a new prospectus for the study of ancient art and imagery. | The Archaeology of Art Materials Practices Affects

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