Full Description
Particularly since the 1950s, cars and popular music have been constantly associated. As complementary goods and intertwined technologies, their relationship has become part of a widely shared experience—one that connects individuals and society, private worlds and public spheres. Popular Music and Automobiles aims to unpack that relationship in more detail. It explores the ways in which cars and car journeys have shaped society, as well as how we have shaped them. Including both broad synergies and specific case studies, Popular Music and Automobiles explores how attention to an ongoing relationship can reveal insights about the assertion and negotiation of identity. Using methods of enquiry that are as diverse as the topics they tackle, its contributors closely consider specific genders, genres, places and texts.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Mark Duffett, University of Chester, United Kingdom
1. Rock 'n' Roll: Cars, Convergence, and Culture
Tim Wall and Nick Webber (Birmingham City University, UK)
2. 'She's My Little Deuce Coupe': Freudian Transformations in the Car Songs of The Beach Boys
Georgina Gregory (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
3. Music Is the Vehicle: Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now," Top Gear, and the Driving Anthem
Roddy Hawkins (University of Manchester, UK)
4. The Passenger? Gender, Cars, Mobility, and Dance Music
Katie Milestone (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
5. Rave Journeys: Intimacy, Liminality, and the Changing Notion of Home
Beate Peter (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
6. Driving on the A470: Cars and Roads in Welsh-language Popular Music
Craig Owen Jones (Bangor University and Coleg Cymraeg, Cenedlaethol, Wales)
7. 'Ich will Spaß, ich geb Gas': German Pop between Fun and Subversion
Barbara Hornberger (University of Hildesheim, Germany) Translated from German by Kerstin Bueschges
8. Las Chivas: Fiesta in Motion
Santiago Niño Morales (Distrital 'Francisco José de Caldas', Bogotá, Colombia)
9. Listening to Music in Cars while Black: Popular Music, Automobility, and the Murder of Jordan Davis
Amanda Nell Edgar (University of Memphis, USA)
10. Crash! Music Press Coverage of Performers in Automobile Accidents
Mark Duffett (University of Chester, UK)
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