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Is Rock Dead? (Hardcover)
Kevin J H Dettmar
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Rock and roll's death has been forecast nearly since its birth; the
country song "The Death of Rock and Roll" appeared in September
1956, showing that the music had already outraged a more
conservative listening audience. "Is Rock Dead?" sets out to
explore the varied and sometimes conflicting ways in which the
death of rock has been discussed both within the discourse of
popular music and American culture. If rock is dead, when did it
die? Who killed it? Why do rock journalists lament its passing? Has
its academic acceptance stabbed it in the back or resuscitated an
otherwise lifeless corpse? Why is rock music the music that
conservatives love to hate? On the other side of the coin, how have
rock's biggest fans helped nail shut the coffin? Does rock feed on
its own death-and-rebirth? Finally, what signs of life are there
showing that rock in fact is surviving?
"Is Rock Dead?" will appeal to all those who take seriously the
notion that rock is a serious musical form. It will appeal to
students of popular music and culture, and all those who have ever
spun a 45, cranked up the radio, or strummed an air guitar.
Rock and roll's death has been forecast nearly since its birth; the
country song "The Death of Rock and Roll" appeared in September
1956, showing that the music had already outraged a more
conservative listening audience. "Is Rock Dead?" sets out to
explore the varied and sometimes conflicting ways in which the
death of rock has been discussed both within the discourse of
popular music and American culture. If rock is dead, when did it
die? Who killed it? Why do rock journalists lament its passing? Has
its academic acceptance stabbed it in the back or resuscitated an
otherwise lifeless corpse? Why is rock music the music that
conservatives love to hate? On the other side of the coin, how have
rock's biggest fans helped nail shut the coffin? Does rock feed on
its own death-and-rebirth? Finally, what signs of life are there
showing that rock in fact is surviving?
"Is Rock Dead?" will appeal to all those who take seriously the
notion that rock is a serious musical form. It will appeal to
students of popular music and culture, and all those who have ever
spun a 45, cranked up the radio, or strummed an air guitar.
A towering figure in American culture and a global
twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of
American life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to Bob
Dylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan's
creative output. The first Part approaches Dylan's output
thematically, tracing the evolution of Dylan's writing and his
engagement with American popular music, religion, politics, fame,
and his work as a songwriter and performer. Essays in Part II
analyse his landmark albums to examine the consummate artistry of
Dylan's most accomplished studio releases. As a writer Dylan has
courageously chronicled and interpreted many of the cultural
upheavals in America since World War II. This book will be
invaluable both as a guide for students of Dylan and
twentieth-century culture, and for his fans, providing a set of new
perspectives on a much-loved writer and composer.
A towering figure in American culture and a global
twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of
American life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to Bob
Dylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan's
creative output. The first Part approaches Dylan's output
thematically, tracing the evolution of Dylan's writing and his
engagement with American popular music, religion, politics, fame,
and his work as a songwriter and performer. Essays in Part II
analyse his landmark albums to examine the consummate artistry of
Dylan's most accomplished studio releases. As a writer Dylan has
courageously chronicled and interpreted many of the cultural
upheavals in America since World War II. This book will be
invaluable both as a guide for students of Dylan and
twentieth-century culture, and for his fans, providing a set of new
perspectives on a much-loved writer and composer.
Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of
Four produced post-punk's smartest record, Entertainment! For the
first time, a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive
beats-and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady
mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural
politics of everyday life. But for an American college student from
the suburbs-and, one expects, for many, many others, including
British youth-Jon King's and Andy Gill's mumbled lyrics were often
all but unintelligible. Political rock 'n' roll is always something
of an oxymoron: rock audiences by and large don't tune in to be
lectured to. But what can it mean that a band that made pop songs
as political theory actively resisted making that theory legible?
Coming to terms with the impact of Entertainment! requires us to
take the mondegreen-the misunderstood lyric-seriously. The old joke
has it that the title of R.E.M.'s debut album should have been not
Murmur, but Mumble: true, so far as it goes. But that's the title,
too, of rock 'n' roll's Greatest Hits compilation-and that
strategic inarticulateness itself, which creates such an important
role for the listener, has an important politics.
The Fourth Edition of "The Longman Anthology of British
Literature," Volume 1A, "The Middle Ages "and Volume 1B, "The Early
""Modern Period," continue their tradition of presenting works in
the historical context in which they were written. This fresh
approach includes writers from the British Isles, underrepresented
female authors, "Perspectives" sections that shed light on the
period as a whole and link with immediately surrounding works to
help illuminate a theme, "And Its Time" clusters that illuminate a
specific cultural moment or a debate to which an author is
responding, and "Responses" in which later authors respond to one
or more texts from earlier works. 0205753736 / 9780205753734
Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1A and 1B Package
consists of: 0205655300 / 9780205655304 Longman Anthology of
British Literature, Volume 1A, The: The Middle Ages 0205655327 /
9780205655328 Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1B,
The: The Early Modern Period
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