Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams Of American Music

A capacious and stimulating tour de force of the mainstream music industry that reveals the cultural import of even the most deliberately banal performers and songs. Weisbard finds depths in our culture s shallows as he investigates and articulates the cultural construction of such phenomena as Dolly Parton, Elton John, the Isley Brothers, A&M Records, and the rise of radio populism. He further sheds new light on the upheavals in the music industry over the last fifteen years and the implications of them for the audiences the industry has shaped. Each chapter brings us to see afresh precisely that music and those musicians that have become the most familiar and overexposed, by delving into the minutiae of how pop stars and their music were made and framed for repeated consumption in the era dominated by radio." 9780226896182 0226896188 336 BOOK History NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3j0TBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Eric Weisbard
• | Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 20, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0226896188
• | ISBN-13: 9780226896182