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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820825503321

Autore

Nehring Neil <1957->

Titolo

Popular music, gender, and postmodernism : anger is an energy / / Neil Nehring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE, c1997

ISBN

1-5063-3920-4

1-322-42117-X

1-4833-4547-5

1-4522-4969-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxi, 203 p.)

Disciplina

781.66

Soggetti

Punk rock music - History and criticism

Feminism and music

Anger in music

Postmodernism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. -- part II.

Sommario/riassunto

The migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism are traced in this book. The result of this migration is a widespread fatalism over the ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in popular music.     The book synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and theory from romanticism through postmodernism; alternative music such as feminist punk and grunge; political economy, which has fueled the obsession with commercial incorporation; and subcult