Full Description
This book examines the post-1960s era of popular music in the Anglo-Black Atlantic through the prism of historical theory and methods. By using a series of case studies, this book mobilizes historical theory and methods to underline different expressions of alternative music functioning within a mainstream musical industry. Each chapter highlights a particular theory or method while simultaneously weaving it through a genre of music expressing a notion of alternativity—an explicit positioning of one's expression outside and counter to the mainstream. Historical Theory and Methods through Popular Music seeks to fill a gap in current scholarship by offering a collection written specifically for the pedagogical and theoretical needs of those interested in the topic.
Contents
1. Introduction: Those are the new saints.- 2. "'400 Years': Modernity, the Longue Durée, and Jamaican Music, 1600s-1980s".- 3."This Charming Man: Queer and Alternative Masculinities, 1970-1994".- 4."Will the Wolf Survive?": Chicana/o Identity and Punk Rock in Los Angeles, 1977-2000.".-5. "A Perfect New Loop: Hip-Hop, Deindustrialization, and the Post-Civil Rights Era, and Hip-Hop, 1973-2000".- 6. "The Pride of History": Post-Punk and the Aesthetics of Postmodernity.- 7. "Waveless—MTV and the 'Quiet' Feminism of the 1980s".- 8. "Hiraeth—The Celtic Moment in 1980s Alternative Rock".- 9. "Feels Blind: Counter-Hegemony in Alternative Rock during the Reagan/Thatcher Era".- 10. "No Depression: The Nostalgia and Authenticity of Alternative Country".- 11. Conclusion.
