Publication

2022 - Bloomsbury Academic

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101501387715
  • ISBN-139781501387715
  • Better World Books9781501387715
  • Open LibraryOL34987239M

Description

"The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed. It considers the typically linear narratives that are based on simplifications, exaggerations, and omissions and the histories they construct - an approach that leads to totalizing official histories that reduce otherwise messy narratives to one-dimensional interpretations of a heroic and celebratory nature. This book questions the basis on which these mediated histories are constructed, highlights other, hidden, histories that have otherwise been neglected, and explores a range of topics including consumerism, the production pressure behind documentaries, punk fanzines, Rolling Stones covers, and more."--

Subjects

Topics

Mass mediaPopular musicSocial aspectsMusical criticismMass media and musicHistory and criticismMusic & Sound Studies

Other Editions

  • Media Narratives in Popular MusicBloomsbury Academic2022

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