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Nothing Has Been Done Before - Seeking the New in 21st-Century American Popular Music (Hardcover, Paperback) Loot Price: R3,222
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Nothing Has Been Done Before - Seeking the New in 21st-Century American Popular Music (Hardcover, Paperback): Robert Loss

Nothing Has Been Done Before - Seeking the New in 21st-Century American Popular Music (Hardcover, Paperback)

Robert Loss

Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music

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Is there such a thing today as music that's meaningfully new? In our contemporary era of remixing and retro styles, cynics and romantics alike cry "It's all been done before" while record labels and media outlets proclaim that everything is new. Coded into our daily conversations about popular music, newness as an artistic and cultural value is too often taken for granted. Nothing Has Been Done Before instigates a fresh debate about newness in American pop, rock 'n' roll, rap, folk, and R&B made since the turn of the millennium. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that combines music criticism, philosophy, and the literary essay, Robert Loss follows the stories of a diverse cast of musicians who seek the new by wrestling with the past, navigating the market, and speaking politically. The transgressions of Bob Dylan's "Love and Theft". The pop spectacle of Katy Perry's 2015 Super Bowl halftime show. Protest songs against the war in Iraq. Nothing Has Been Done Before argues that performance heard in a historical context always creates a possibility for newness, whether it's Kendrick Lamar's multi-layered To Pimp a Butterfly, the Afrofuturist visions of Janelle Monae, or even a Guided By Voices tribute concert in a local dive bar. Provocative and engaging, Nothing Has Been Done Before challenges nothing less than how we hear and think about popular music-its power and its potential.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin: United States
Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music
Release date: November 2017
Authors: Robert Loss
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages: 288
Edition: Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-2203-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Easy listening, MOR
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Easy listening, MOR
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN: 1-5013-2203-6
Barcode: 9781501322037

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