Putting Popular Music in its Place
- Author: Charles Hamm, Dartmouth College, Vermont
- Date Published: April 1995
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521471985
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This volume of essays by the distinguished musicologist Charles Hamm focuses on the context of popular music and its interrelationships with other styles and genres, including classical music, the meaning of popular music for audiences, and the institutional appropriation of this music for hegemonic purposes. Specific topics include the use of popular song to rouse anti-slavery sentiment in mid-nineteenth-century America, the reception of such African-American styles and genres as rock 'n' roll and soul music by the black population of South Africa, the question of genre in the early songs of Irving Berlin, the attempts by the governments of South Africa and China to impose specific bodies of music on their populations, the persistence of the minstrel show in rural twentieth-century America and the impact of modernist modes of thought on writing about popular music.
Read more- Emphasizes the relationship of popular music to other styles and genres
- Engages with the political and social context of popular music in America, Africa and China
- Wide chronological range spans mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s
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'Although its scholarship, on its unique terms, is impeccable, this is not a book for a handful of scholars; it is a book about human survival - a green book in a grey world.' Musical Times
See more reviews'Charles Hamm is a musicologist who should not be left to musicology. Intellectually passionate, socially committed, and politically engaged, he is a cultural historian of a high order and the 'place' of popular music is more fully figured by his work …' Journal of American Studies
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- Date Published: April 1995
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521471985
- length: 404 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 159 x 35 mm
- weight: 0.772kg
- contains: 8 b/w illus. 1 map 4 tables 10 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Modernist narratives and popular music
2. Rock and the facts of life
3. Changing patterns in society and music: the US since World War II
4. 'If I Were a Voice': or, the Hutchinson family and popular song as political and social protest
5. Some thoughts on the measurement of popularity in music
6. Elvis, a review
7. Home cooking and American soul in black South African popular music
8. Rock 'n' roll in a very strange society
9. African-American music, South Africa and apartheid
10. 'The constant companion of man': Separate Development, Radio Bantu and music
11. Privileging the moment of reception: music and radio in South Africa
12. Music and radio in the People's Republic of China
13. Towards a new reading of Gershwin
14. A blues for the ages
15. Graceland revisited
16. Dvorak in America: nationalism, racism and national race
17. The last minstrel show?
18. The Role of Rock, a review
19. Genre, performance and ideology in the early songs of Irving Berlin
20. Epilogue: John Cage revisited
Index.
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