Ken McLeod

Driving Identities

At the Intersection of Popular Music and Automotive Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Driving Identities examines long-standing connections between popular music and the automotive industry and how this relationship has helped to construct and reflect various socio-cultural identities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781032236162
• ISBN-10: 1032236167
• Artikelnr.: 62951153

Autorenporträt

Ken McLeod is an Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Toronto. He has published widely on identity politics in popular music, and the intersections between technology, science fiction, and rock music. His first book, We Are The Champions: The Politics of Sports and Popular Music (Ashgate, 2011), examines the interconnection of sport and popular music in constructing racial, gender, socio-economic, and national identities.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Revving Up 1 "Come Away With Me
Lucille": A Brief History of Popular Song and Automobiles 2 "No Particular Place to Go": Cars
Music
and African American Identity 3 "Gotta Feel for My Automobile": Cars
Music
Gender
and Sexuality 4 If This Brand Were a Band: Sound and Music in Automotive Branding 5 The Sound of Cars as Musical Objects: Tuning
Engine Sound Enhancement
and the Quest for Quiet 6 Sound Systems
Sonic Performance
and the Car as Instrument of Identity 7 Spare Parts: Cars and Soundtracks
Spiritual Connections
Location
and Theoretical Musings Conclusion: Shut Down Bibliography Index