Voicing the Popular: On the Subjects of Popular Music

by Richard Middleton

Book Overview

How does popular music produce its subject? How does it produce us as subjects? More specifically, how does it do this through voice--through "giving voice"? And how should we understand this subject--"the people"--that it voices into existence? Is it singular or plural? What is its history and what is its future?

Voicing the Popular draws on approaches from musical interpretation, cultural history, social theory and psychoanalysis to explore...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415975905
• ISBN13: 9780415975902
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"