Research Catalog

Title

Historical theory and methods through popular music, 1970--2000 : "Those are the new saints" / Kenneth L. Shonk, Jr. and Daniel Robert McClure.

Author

Shonk, Kenneth L.

Publication

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

McClure, Daniel Robert.

Description

xii 311 pages; 22 cm

Summary

This book examines the post-1960s era of popular music in the Anglo-Black Atlantic through the prism of historical theory and methods. By using a series of case studies, this book mobilizes historical theory and methods to underline different expressions of alternative music functioning within a mainstream musical industry. Each chapter highlights a particular theory or method while simultaneously weaving it through a genre of music expressing a notion of alternativity--an explicit positioning of one's expression outside and counter to the mainstream. Historical Theory and Methods through Popular Music seeks to fill a gap in current scholarship by offering a collection written specifically for the pedagogical and theoretical needs of those interested in the topic.

Series Statement

Pop music, culture and identity

Uniform Title

Pop music, culture and identity.

Subjects

• Alternative rock music > Social aspects
• Music > Social aspects
• Music and history

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: The Process and Pedagogy of Historical Theory; Alternativity; Pedagogy; Prelude to the Alternative: Thinking About Modernity, the Longue Durée, and Ontology; Chapter 2 "400 Years": Modernity, The Longue Durée, and Jamaican Music; Modernity, Babylon, and the Caribbean; Ska-Rock Steady-Reggae; After Roots Reggae: Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt; Chapter 3 "This Charming Man": Queer and Alternative Masculinities, 1970-1994; Chapter 4 "Will the Wolf Survive?": Punk Rock and Chicanao Identity in Los Angeles
• Chapter 5 A Perfect New Loop: Hip-Hop, Deindustrialization, and the Post-Civil Rights Era, 1973-2000The African Diaspora, Technology, and the Remnants of Industrialism (a Longue Durée Remix); Post-Industrial Blackness and Mass Incarceration; Hip-Hop and Post-Industrialism; Chapter 6 "The Pride of History": Post-punk and the Aesthetics of Post-modernity; Path(s) to Post-modernity; Getting the Story Crooked: History and Post-modernity; Post-punk: Crooked Narratives, Irony, and Visceral Entertainment; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Waveless: MTV and the "Quiet" Feminism of the 1980s
• Chapter 8 Hiraeth: The Celtic Moment in 1980s Alternative RockU2; Big Country; The Alarm; Chapter 9 "Feels Blind": Counter-Hegemony in Alternative Rock During the ReaganThatcher Era; Hegemony: From Gramsci to Lears to Williams; Political Alternativity; Economic (Infrastructure) Alternativity; Aesthetic Alternativity; The Alternative Conclusion; Chapter 10 "No Depression": The Nostalgia and Authenticity of Alternative Country; A Genre Born (Again); Nostalgia and Authenticity; The Longue Durée Re-Cycling of Alt-Country; The Alt-Country Moment
• Picking through the Alternatives of American Country MusicAuthenticity-Concluded; Chapter 11 Conclusion; Index

Call Number

JMD 17-72

ISBN

• 9781137570710
• 1137570717

OCLC

982651620

Author

Shonk, Kenneth L.

Title

Historical theory and methods through popular music, 1970--2000 : "Those are the new saints" / Kenneth L. Shonk, Jr. and Daniel Robert McClure.

Publisher

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Pop music, culture and identity

Pop music, culture and identity.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

McClure, Daniel Robert.

Research Call Number

JMD 17-72