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"The analysis of popular music forces us to rethink the assumptions that underpin our approaches to the study of Western music. Not least, it brings to the fore an idea that many musicologists still find uncomfortable - that commercial production and consumption can be aligned with artistic authenticity. Reading pop texts takes place through dialogue on many levels, which, as Stan Hawkins argues, deals with how musical events are shaped by personal alliances between the artist and the recipient.".
"The need for a critical approach to evaluating popular music lies at the heart of this book. Hawkins explores the relationships that exist between music, spectatorship and aesthetics through a series of case studies of pop artists from the 1980s and 1990s. Madonna, Morrissey, Annie Lennox, the Pet Shop Boys and Prince represent the diversity of cultures, identities and sexualities that characterised the start of the MTV boom.".
"Through the interpretation of aspects of the compositional design and musical structures of songs by these pop artists, Hawkins suggests ways in which stylistic and technical elements of the music relate to identity formation and its political motivations. Settling the Pop Score examines the role of irony and empathy, the question of gender, race and sexuality, and the relevance of textual analysis to the study of popular music.
Interpreting pop music within the framework of musicology, Hawkins helps us to understand the pleasure so many people derive from these songs."--BOOK JACKET.
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Popular music, Gender identity, Musical analysis, Musicology, Social aspects, Gender identity in music, Sex in music, Identity politics, Musique populaire, Aspect social, Identité sexuelle dans la musique, Sexualité dans la musique, Analyse musicale, Musicologie, Popmusik, Text, Popmuziek, Identiteit, Identité sexuelleEdition | Availability |
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Settling the Pop Score: Pop Texts and Identity Politics
2017, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
135154909X 9781351549097
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Settling the Pop Score: Pop Texts and Identity Politics
2017, Taylor & Francis Group
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1351549103 9781351549103
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Settling the Pop Score: Pop Texts and Identity Politics (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
April 2002, Ashgate Pub Ltd
Paperback
in English
0754603520 9780754603528
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Settling the Pop Score: Pop Texts and Identity Politics (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
March 2002, Ashgate Publishing
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0754603512 9780754603511
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