Motti Regev

Pop-Rock Music (eBook, ePUB)

Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Pop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical form defined by the use of electric and electronic instruments, amplification and related techniques. The history of pop-rock extends from the emergence of rock'n'roll in the 1950s to a variety of contemporary fashions and trends - rock, punk, soul, funk, techno, hip hop, indie, metal, pop and many more. This book offers a highly original account of the emergence of pop-rock music as a global phenomenon in which Anglo-American and many other national and ethnic variants interact in complex ways. Pop-rock is analysed as a prime instance of 'aesthetic cosmopolitanism' - that is, the gradual formation, in late modernity, of world culture as a single interconnected entity in which different social groupings around the world increasingly share common ground in their aesthetic perceptions, expressive forms and cultural practices. Drawing on a wide array of examples, this path-breaking book will be of great interest to students and scholars in cultural sociology, media and cultural studies as well as the study of popular music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745670904
• Artikelnr.: 39120567

Autorenporträt

Motti Regev is professor of sociology at The Open University of Israel where he works on the sociology of culture and art and popular music studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii 1 Theories and Concepts 1 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism: A
Theoretical Framework 4 Characterizing Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism 6
Theoretical Framework 9 Rock, Pop, and Popular Music 17 Structure of the
Book 23 Methodological Note 26 2 Expressive Isomorphism 28 Pop-Rock Styles
and Genres 32 Pop-Rock Divas 33 Rock Auteurs 35 Progressive Rock 37 Punk
and Metal 38 Electronic Dance Music 40 Hip-Hop 41 Ethnic Rock/New Folk 43
Dominance of the Musical Public Sphere 46 Legitimation Discourse 50 Ritual
Classification: Tradition vs. Pop-Rock 52 Ritual Periodization: The "Birth
of Rock" 54 3 A Field of Cultural Production 57 Working of the Field 59
Production of Meaning 61 Pop-Rock's Ideology of Art 65 Mechanisms of Change
and Innovation 75 Avant-Gardism 76 Commercialism 78 The Spiral of Expansion
80 Structure of the Field 83 National (Sub-) Fields of Pop-Rock Music 87 4
Long-Term Event of Pop-Rockization 91 Events 93 The Musical Event 95 The
Historical Musical Event of Pop-Rock 96 Agency 97 Early "Pre-History" 106
Consecrated Beginning 108 Consolidation and Rise to Dominance 113
Diversification, Internationalization, Glorification 117 5 Aesthetic
Cultures 123 Subcultural Scenes to Aesthetic Cultures 126 Aesthetic
Cultures 129 Forms of Pop-Rock Knowledge 131 Early Participation 133 Global
Microstructures 136 Internet Platforms 138 The Pop-Rock Intelligentsia 142
Indie/Alternative Pop-Rock 142 Alternative Pop-Rock on the Web 146 An
Extended Case: Israeli Cognoscenti 148 6 Sonic Vocabularies, Spaces, and
Bodies 158 Sonic Vocabularies 161 Tones and Timbres 162 Museme Stacks and
Strings 165 Global Electro-Amplified Soundscapes 168 Aesthetic Cosmopolitan
Bodies 172 Actants of Intercultural Phenomenological Proximity 177
References 180 Index 195