Policing Pop

by Martin Cloonan and Reebee Garofalo

Book Overview

Fans and detractors of popular music tend to agree on one thing: popular music is a bellwether of an individual's political and cultural values. In the United States, for example, one cannot think of the counterculture apart from its music. For that reason, in virtually every country in the world, some group identifies popular music as a source of potential danger and wants to regulate it. Policing Pop looks into the many ways in which popular music...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566399904
• ISBN13: 9781566399906
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 10.0"