Play It Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music

Herausgeber: Plasketes, George

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The cover phenomenon in popular culture may be viewed as a postmodern manifestation in music as artists revisit, reinterpret and re-examine a significant cross section of musical styles, periods, genres, individual records, and other artists and their catalogues of works. The cover complex, with its multiple variations, issues, contexts, and re-contextualizations comprises an important and rich popular culture text. These re-recordings represent artifacts which embody artistic, social, cultural, historical, commercial, biographical, and novel meanings. Through homage, allusion, apprenticeship, and parody, among other modes, these diverse musical quotations express, preserve, and distribute popular culture, popular music and their intersecting historical narratives. Play it Again represents the first collection of critical perspectives on the many facets of cover songs in popular music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781138250031
• ISBN-10: 1138250031
• Artikelnr.: 53302060

Autorenporträt

George Plasketes is Professor of Radio-Television-Film and Popular Culture in the Department of Communication & Journalism at Auburn University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Like A Version, George Plasketes; Part 1 Front Cover:
Treatise; Chapter 1 Further Re-flections on "The Cover Age": A Collage and
Chronicle 1 This chapter is a remastered and expanded edition of an essay
that appeared in the special issue on cover songs in Popular Music and
Society in 2005. Thanks always to the journal's editor extraordinaire Gary
Burns., George Plasketes; Part 2 Under the Covers: History, Ideology,
Identity; Chapter 2 Charting Cultural Change, 1953-57: Song Assimilation
Through Cover Recording, B. Lee Cooper; Chapter 3 The Cover Song as
Historiography, Marker of Ideological Transformation, Sheldon Schiffer;
Chapter 4 Cover Up: Emergent Authenticity in a Japanese Popular Music
Genre, Christine R. Yano; Part 3 The Song Remains the Same? Song and Album;
Chapter 5 From Junk to Jesus: Recontextualizing "The Pusher", Andrew G.
Davis; Chapter 6 David Bowie's Pin-Ups : Past as Prelude, Stuart Lenig;
Part 4 Look What They've Done To My Song: Gender, Identity, Media
Makeovers; Chapter 7 Queering Cohen: Cover Versions as Subversions of
Identity, Erik Steinskog; Chapter 8 Covering and Un(covering) the Truth
with "All Along the Watchtower": From Dylan to Hendrix and Beyond, Russell
Reising; Chapter 9 The Same Yet Different/Different Yet the Same: Bob Dylan
Under the Cover of Covers, Greg Metcalf; Part 5 Don't Forget To Dance:
Technique and Techno Transformations; Chapter 10 "Hide and Seek": A Case of
Collegiate A Cappella "Microcovering", Joshua S. Duchan; Chapter 11 The
Mashup Mindset: Will Pop Eat Itself?, David Tough; Chapter 12 Camp
Transitions: Genre Adaptation and the HI-NRG/Dance Cover Version, Lee
Barron; Part 6 Contemplating Covers; Chapter 13 In Defense of Cover Songs:
Commerce and Credibility, Don Cusic; Chapter 14 Artist Intentions: A Case
for Quality Covers, Remy Miller; Part 7 Back Cover: Epilogue; Chapter 15
Appreciating Cover Songs: Stereophony, Deena Weinstein;