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Pop, When the World Falls Apart: Music in the Shadow of Doubt

Pop, When the World Falls Apart: Music in the Shadow of Doubt

Weisbard, Eric

Paperback

AnthropologyPop/RockMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0822351080
ISBN13: 9780822351085
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Mar 26 2012
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Hearing Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan once said, was like busting out of jail. But what happens when popular music isn't as simple as rock-and-roll rebellion? How does pop respond to such events as a decade-long war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina? In Pop When the World Falls Apart, a diverse array of music writers, scholars, and enthusiasts reflect on popular music's role-as commentary, as refuge, and as rallying cry-in times of military conflict, social upheaval, and cultural crisis.

Drawn from presentations at the annual Experience Music Project Pop Conference-hailed by Robert Christgau as the best thing that's ever happened to serious consideration of pop music-the essays in this book include inquiries into the sonic dimension of war in Iraq; the cultural life of jazz in post-Katrina New Orleans; Isaac Hayes's reappropriation of a country song, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, as a symbol of black nationalism; and punk rock pranks played on record execs looking for the next big thing in central Virginia. Offering a diverse range of voices, perspectives, and approaches, this volume mirrors the eclecticism of pop itself.

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