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The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key
moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and
interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in
this volume argue persuasively that the music documentary must be
considered as an essential cultural artefact in documenting stars
and icons, and musicians and their times - particularly for those
figures whose fame was achieved posthumously. In this collection of
fifteen essays, the reader will find comprehensive discussions of
the history of music documentaries, insights in their production
and promotion, close studies of documentaries relating to favourite
bands or performers, and approaches to questions of music
documentary and form, from the celluloid to the digital age.
The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key
moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and
interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in
this volume argue persuasively that the music documentary must be
considered as an essential cultural artefact in documenting stars
and icons, and musicians and their times - particularly for those
figures whose fame was achieved posthumously. In this collection of
fifteen essays, the reader will find comprehensive discussions of
the history of music documentaries, insights in their production
and promotion, close studies of documentaries relating to favourite
bands or performers, and approaches to questions of music
documentary and form, from the celluloid to the digital age.
Prince's position in popular culture has undergone only limited
academic scrutiny. This book provides an academic examination of
Prince, encompassing the many layers of his cultural and creative
impact. It assesses Prince's life and legacy holistically,
exploring his multiple identities and the ways in which they were
manifested through his recorded catalogue and audiovisual personae.
In 17 essays organized thematically, the anthology includes a
diverse range of contributions - taking ethnographic,
musicological, sociological, gender studies and cultural studies
approaches to analysing Prince's career.
For seven seasons, viewers worldwide watched as ad man Don Draper
moved from adultery to self-discovery, secretary Peggy Olson became
a take-no-prisoners businesswoman, object-of-the-gaze Joan Holloway
developed a feminist consciousness, executive Roger Sterling
tripped on LSD, and smarmy Pete Campbell became a surprisingly nice
guy. Mad Men defined a pivotal moment for television, earning an
enduring place in the medium's history. This edited collection
examines the enduringly popular television series as Mad Men still
captivates audiences and scholars in its nuanced depiction of a
complex decade. This is the first book to offer an analysis of Mad
Men in its entirety, exploring the cyclical and episodic structure
of the long form series and investigating issues of representation,
power and social change. The collection establishes the show's
legacy in televisual terms, and brings it up to date through an
examination of its cultural importance in the Trump era. Aimed at
scholars and interested general readers, the book illustrates the
ways in which Mad Men has become a cultural marker for reflecting
upon contemporary television and politics.
Pop stars have provided audiences with performative moments that
have become ingrained in popular consciousness. They are a lens
through which deeper understandings about race, gender, politics,
history and the artistic process can be understood. When combined
with the most affective of mediums - cinema, the combination can be
both thrilling and alarming. From the relatively early days of
cinema, figures from the world of popular music have made forays
into acting and contributed cameo appearances. From Little Richard
and Kylie Minogue to Nick Cave and Tom Waits, Pop Stars On Film:
Popular Culture in a Global Market offers a collection of essays on
some of the most influential international performances from a
diverse range of cultural icons. The book considers industry
shifts, access and diversity, but also the notion of cultural
appropriation, audience appeal, marketing and demographics. Perhaps
most importantly, the publication will look at what happens when
cultures collide and coalesce.
For seven seasons, viewers worldwide watched as ad man Don Draper
moved from adultery to self-discovery, secretary Peggy Olson became
a take-no-prisoners businesswoman, object-of-the-gaze Joan Holloway
developed a feminist consciousness, executive Roger Sterling
tripped on LSD, and smarmy Pete Campbell became a surprisingly nice
guy. Mad Men defined a pivotal moment for television, earning an
enduring place in the medium's history. This edited collection
examines the enduringly popular television series as Mad Men still
captivates audiences and scholars in its nuanced depiction of a
complex decade. This is the first book to offer an analysis of Mad
Men in its entirety, exploring the cyclical and episodic structure
of the long form series and investigating issues of representation,
power and social change. The collection establishes the show's
legacy in televisual terms, and brings it up to date through an
examination of its cultural importance in the Trump era. Aimed at
scholars and interested general readers, the book illustrates the
ways in which Mad Men has become a cultural marker for reflecting
upon contemporary television and politics.
This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music
video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which
represents a substantial academic engagement with the music video,
a mediated form and practice that still remains relatively
under-explored in a 21st century context. The music video has
remained suspended between two distinct poles. On the one hand, the
music video as the visual sheen of late capitalism, at the
intersection of celebrity studies and postmodernism. On the other
hand, the music video as art, looking to a prehistory of
avant-garde film-making while perpetually pushing forward the
digital frontier with a taste for anarchy, controversy, and the
integration of special effects into a form designed to be
disseminated across digital platforms. In this way, the music video
virally re-engenders debates about high art and low culture. This
collection presents a comprehensive account of the music video from
a contemporary 21st century perspective. This entails revisiting
key moments in the canonical history of the music video, exploring
its articulations of sexuality and gender, examining its
functioning as a form of artistic expression between music, film
and video art, and following the music video's dissemination into
the digital domain, considering how digital media and social media
have come to re-invent the forms and functions of the music video,
well beyond the limits of "music television".
The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first
sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of
concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital
and social media, in its delivery of event, experience, technology
and star - the art form of the 21st century. This volume offers
interviews with key designers, discussions of the practicalities of
mounting arena concerts, mixing and performing live to a mass
audience, recollections of the giants of late twentieth century
music in performance, and critiques of latter-day pretenders to the
throne. The authors track the evolution of the arena concert,
consider design and architecture, celebrity and fashion, and turn
to feminism, ethnographic research, and ideas of humour, liveness
and authenticity, in order to explore and frame the arena concert.
The arena concert becomes the "real time" centre of a global
digital network, and the gig-goer pays not only for an immersion in
(and, indeed, role in) its spectacular nature, but also for a close
encounter with the performers, in this contained and exalted space.
The spectacular nature of the arena concert raises challenges that
have yet to be fully technologically overcome, and has given rise
to a reinvention of what live music actually means. Love it or
loathe it, the arena concert is a major presence in the cultural
landscape of the 21st century. This volume finds out why.
The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first
sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of
concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital
and social media, in its delivery of event, experience, technology
and star - the art form of the 21st century. This volume offers
interviews with key designers, discussions of the practicalities of
mounting arena concerts, mixing and performing live to a mass
audience, recollections of the giants of late twentieth century
music in performance, and critiques of latter-day pretenders to the
throne. The authors track the evolution of the arena concert,
consider design and architecture, celebrity and fashion, and turn
to feminism, ethnographic research, and ideas of humour, liveness
and authenticity, in order to explore and frame the arena concert.
The arena concert becomes the "real time" centre of a global
digital network, and the gig-goer pays not only for an immersion in
(and, indeed, role in) its spectacular nature, but also for a close
encounter with the performers, in this contained and exalted space.
The spectacular nature of the arena concert raises challenges that
have yet to be fully technologically overcome, and has given rise
to a reinvention of what live music actually means. Love it or
loathe it, the arena concert is a major presence in the cultural
landscape of the 21st century. This volume finds out why.
This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music
video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which
represents a substantial academic engagement with the music video,
a mediated form and practice that still remains relatively
under-explored in a 21st century context. The music video has
remained suspended between two distinct poles. On the one hand, the
music video as the visual sheen of late capitalism, at the
intersection of celebrity studies and postmodernism. On the other
hand, the music video as art, looking to a prehistory of
avant-garde film-making while perpetually pushing forward the
digital frontier with a taste for anarchy, controversy, and the
integration of special effects into a form designed to be
disseminated across digital platforms. In this way, the music video
virally re-engenders debates about high art and low culture. This
collection presents a comprehensive account of the music video from
a contemporary 21st century perspective. This entails revisiting
key moments in the canonical history of the music video, exploring
its articulations of sexuality and gender, examining its
functioning as a form of artistic expression between music, film
and video art, and following the music video's dissemination into
the digital domain, considering how digital media and social media
have come to re-invent the forms and functions of the music video,
well beyond the limits of "music television".
The diva – a central figure in the landscape of contemporary
popular culture: gossip-generating, scandal-courting,
paparazzi-stalked. And yet the diva is at the epicentre of creative
endeavours that resonate with contemporary feminist ideas, kick
back against diminished social expectations, boldly call-out casual
sexism and industry misogyny and, in terms of hip-hop, explores
intersectional oppressions and unapologetically celebrates
non-white cultural heritages. Diva beats and grooves echo across
culture and politics in the West: from the borough to the White
House, from arena concerts to nightclubs, from social media to
social activism, from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter. Diva: Feminism
and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop addresses the diva phenomenon
and its origins: its identity politics and LGBTQ+ components; its
creativity and interventions in areas of popular culture (music,
and beyond); its saints and sinners and controversies old and new;
and its oppositions to, and recuperations by, the establishment;
and its shifts from third to fourth waves of feminism. This
co-edited collection brings together an international array of
writers – from new voices to established names. The collection
scopes the rise to power of the diva (looking to Mariah Carey,
Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton, Grace Jones, and Aaliyah), then
turns to contemporary diva figures and their work (with Beyoncé,
Amuro Namie, Janelle Monáe, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Shakira,
Jennifer Lopez, and Nicki Minaj), and concludes by considering the
presence of the diva in wider cultures, in terms of gallery
curation, theatre productions, and stand-up comedy.
Prince's position in popular culture has undergone only limited
academic scrutiny. This book provides an academic examination of
Prince, encompassing the many layers of his cultural and creative
impact. It assesses Prince's life and legacy holistically,
exploring his multiple identities and the ways in which they were
manifested through his recorded catalogue and audiovisual personae.
In 17 essays organized thematically, the anthology includes a
diverse range of contributions - taking ethnographic,
musicological, sociological, gender studies and cultural studies
approaches to analysing Prince's career.
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