Georgina Born, David Hesmondhalgh (eds.): Western Music and Its Others. Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · ethnomusicology, music, music history, popular culture, sociology of music
This innovative collection of articles offers a major comprehensive overview of new developments in cultural theory as applied to Western music. Addressing a broad range of primarily twentieth-century music, the authors examine two related phenomena: musical borrowings or appropriations, and how music has been used to construct, evoke, or represent difference of a musical or a sociocultural kind.
The essays scrutinize a diverse body of music and discuss a range of significant examples, among them musical modernism’s idealizing or ambivalent relations with popular, ethnic, and non-Western music; exoticism and orientalism in the experimental music tradition; the representation of others in Hollywood film music; music’s role in the formation and contestation of collective identities, with reference to Jewish and Turkish popular music; and issues of representation and difference in jazz, world music, hip hop, and electronic dance music.
Written by leading scholars from disciplines including historical musicology, sociology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, popular music studies, and film studies, the essays provide unprecedented insights into how cultural identities and differences are constructed in music.
Publisher University of California Press, 2000
ISBN 0520220846, 9780520220843
360 pages
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Comment (0)Nicholas Mirzoeff (ed.): The Visual Culture Reader (1998–)
Filed under book | Tags: · art history, digital cinema, feminism, popular culture, postmodernism, telepresence, virtual reality, visual culture
“The Visual Culture Reader brings together key writings as well as specially commissioned articles covering a wealth of visual forms including photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, advertising, television, cinema and digital culture. The Reader features an introductory section tracing the development of visual culture studies in response to globalization and digital culture, and articles grouped into thematic sections, each prefaced by an introduction by the editor and conclude with suggestions for further reading.”
Publisher Routledge, London & New York, 1998
ISBN 0415141346, 9780415141345
xvi+530 pages
Second edition, revised
Publisher Routledge, 2002
ISBN 0415252229, 9780415252225
xix+737 pages
Publisher (3rd ed.)
PDF (1st ed., 12 MB; added on 2021-3-11)
PDF (2nd ed., 35 MB, no OCR, some pages missing, updated on 2012-7-18)
Angharad N. Valdivia (ed.): A Companion to Media Studies (2005)
Filed under book | Tags: · advertising, audience, cultural studies, feminism, gender, intellectual property, mass media, media studies, politics, popular culture, pornography, television, theory
A Companion to Media Studies is a comprehensive collection that brings together new writings by some of the most respected canonical and contemporary media studies scholars to provide an overview of the theories and methodologies that have produced this most interdisciplinary of fields.
* Brings together new writings by some of the most respected canonical and contemporary media studies scholars in the most comprehensive collection on media studies to date.
* Tackles a variety of central concepts and controversies, organized into six areas of study: foundations, production, media content, media audiences, effects, and futures.
* Provides an accessible point of entry into this expansive and interdisciplinary field.
* Includes the writings of renowned media scholars, including McQuail, Schiller, Gallagher, Wartella, and Bryant.
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, 2005
ISBN 1405141743, 9781405141741
590 pages
PDF (updated on 2013-3-28)
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