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Making Meaning in Popular Song - Philosophical Essays (Hardcover)
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Making Meaning in Popular Song - Philosophical Essays (Hardcover)
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For Theodore Gracyk meaning in popular music depends as much on the
context of reception and performer’s intentions as on established
musical and semantic practices. Songs are structures that serve as
the scaffolding for meaning production, influenced by the
performance decisions of the performer and their intentions.
Arguing against prevailing theories of meaning that ignore the
power of the performance, Gracyk champions the contextual relevance
of the performer as well as novel messaging through creative
repurposing of recordings. Extending the philosophical insight that
meaning is a function of use, Gracyk explains how both the
performance persona and the personal life of a song’s performer
can contribute to (or undercut) ethical and political aspects of a
performance or recording. Using Carly Simon’s “You’re So
Vain”, Pink Floyd, the emergence of the musical genre of
post-punk and the practice of “cover” versions, Gracyk explores
the multiple, sometimes contradictory, notions of authenticity
applied to popular music and the conditions for meaningful
communication. He places popular music within larger cultural
contexts and examines how assigning a performance or recording to
one music genre rather than another has implications for what it
communicates. Informed by a mix of philosophy of art and philosophy
of language, Gracyk's entertaining study of popular music
constructs a theoretical basis for a philosophy of meaning for
songs.
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