Pop music and the press / edited by Steve Jones.
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TextSeries: Sound mattersPublication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2002.Description: xii, 270 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 1566399661 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 781.64 JON
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 781.64 JON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000370214 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Since the 1950s, writing about popular music has become a staple of popular culture. Rolling Stone, Vibe, and The Source as well as music columns in major newspapers target consumers who take their music seriously. Rapidly proliferating fanzines, websites, and internet discussion groups enable virtually anyone to engage in popular music criticism. Until now, however, no one has tackled popular music criticism as a genre of journalism with a particular history and evolution.Pop Music and the Press looks at the major publications and journalists who have shaped this criticism, influencing the public's ideas about the music's significance and quality. The contributors to the volume include academics and journalists; several wear both hats, and some are musicians as well. Their essays illuminate the complex relationships of the music industry, print media, critical practice, and rock culture. (And they repeatedly dispel the notion that being a journalist is the next best thing to being a rock star.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro: Popular music, media, and the written word / Steve Jones -- Institutions and history -- Re-viewing rock writing, narratives of popular music criticism / Steve Jones and Kevin Featherly -- Brit crit, turning points in British rock criticism, 1960-1990 / Gestur Gudmundsson, Ulf Lindberg, Morten Michelsen, and Hans Weisethaunet -- Word power, a brief, highly opinionated history of hip-hop journalism / Jeff Chang -- Critical senility vs. overcomprehension, rock criticism and the lesson of the avant-garde / Robert B. Ray -- Discourses -- Consumers\' guides, the political economy of the music press and the democracy of critical discourse / Mark Fenster -- Between rock and a hard place, gender and rock criticism / Kembrew McLeod -- Exclusive! the British press and popular music, the story so far ... / Martin Cloonan -- Abandoning the absolute, transcendence and gender in popular music discourse / Holly Kruse -- Politics and history of hip-hop journalism / Kembrew McLeod -- Case studies -- Jewel case, pop stars, poets, and the press / Thomas Swiss -- Taking country music seriously, coverage of the 1990\'s boom / Joli Jensen -- Sweet nothings, presentation of women musicians in pop journalism / Brenda Johnson-Grau -- Day the music died - again, newspaper coverage of the deaths of popular musicians / Sharon R. Mazzarella and Timoth M. Matyjewicz -- Coda -- Fragments of a sociology of rock criticism / Simon Frith -- Outro / Chris Nelson.