Words, Music, and the Popular
Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations
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Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations opens up the notion of the popular, drawing useful links between wide-ranging aspects of popular culture, through the lens of the interaction between words and music. This collection of essays explores the relation of words and music to issues of the popular. It asks: What is popularity or ‘the’ popular and what role(s) does music play in it? What is the function of the popular, and is ‘pop’ a system? How can popularity be explained in certain historical and political contexts? How do class, gender, race, and ethnicity contribute to and complicate an understanding of the ‘popular’? What of the popularity of verbal art forms? How do they interact with music at particular times and throughout different media?
Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations opens up the notion of the popular, drawing useful links between wide-ranging aspects of popular culture, through the lens of the interaction between words and music. This collection of essays explores the relation of words and music to issues of the popular. It asks: What is popularity or ‘the’ popular and what role(s) does music play in it? What is the function of the popular, and is ‘pop’ a system? How can popularity be explained in certain historical and political contexts? How do class, gender, race, and ethnicity contribute to and complicate an understanding of the ‘popular’? What of the popularity of verbal art forms? How do they interact with music at particular times and throughout different media?
Explores the aesthetic and political implications of the interactions between words and music Provides a heterogeneous survey of the ever-changing landscape of popular studies Examine the relation between ‘high’ culture and the popular, discussing political and societal contexts
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Thomas Gurke
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“Words, Music, and the Popular is an impressive collection of fresh scholarship on the relationship between the verbal and the musical. The contributors’ international perspective and focus on seeing this relationship as a form of intermediality allows them to open new directions for inquiry by simultaneously employing and interrogating a range of traditional oppositions, such as those between popular and classical music, rock and pop, the accessible and the ‘difficult,’ the canonical and the ‘minor,’ the present and the historical past, liveand recorded music.”— Philip Auslander is Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
As a scholar of popular culture, what excites me about this eclectic collection is the way that it explodes any fixed conception of the relationship between elite and popular music in favor of an exploration of the flexible borders between music and lyrics, high and low, text and performance, art and commerce, traditional and emergent, live and mediated, original and remix, spectatorship and participation, and so much more. Each essay offers nuanced, intermedial readings of specific sites of music production, each of which ask fundamental questions about the nature of popular music, past, present, and future.
– Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
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