Weird American music : case studies of Underground Resistance, BarlowGirl, Jackalope, Charles Ives, and Waffle House Music /
Gail, Dorothea,
Weird American music : case studies of Underground Resistance, BarlowGirl, Jackalope, Charles Ives, and Waffle House Music / Dorothea Gail. - 1 online resource (413 pages) - American Studies - A Monograph Series, volume 299 0178-1987 ; . - American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 299. .
Habilitation--Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Underground Resistance: "They Keep Calling Me": Ghosts, Post-Collapse Resistance, and the African American Imaginary in Detroit Techno -- BarlowGirl: Warrior virgins and the therapeutic family in Chicago Christian rock -- Jackalope: R. Carlos Nakai, Larry Yáñez, and the ironies of Southwestern hybridity -- Charles Ives: The reception of a New England hero and the classical music cult -- Waffle House music: Advertising as Southern folk art -- Conclusion: fade out.
"The author takes Greil Marcus's capacious category of 'weirdness' in new directions to examine a tension in certain expressions of American music and music communities since the 1980s. It locates this tension in the space between the artists' striving for authenticity in the values they want to communicate on the one hand, and the demands of the marketplace on the other. The results are 'weird' in both the economic and artistic sense. The book follows five different case studies: Underground Resistance, BarlowGirl, Jackalope, the latter-day reception of Charles Ives, and Waffle House Music. All have struggled against co-optation, and arguably faced defeat in their efforts to stay authentic during an era in which lifestyle and ethnicity have become commodified, and both religious and humanistic values have become products."--Provided by publisher
9783825378530 (electronic bk.) 3825378535 (electronic bk.) 3825369560 9783825369569 (hardbound) (hardbound)
9783825369569
1900-1999
Music--History and criticism.--United States--20th century
Popular music--History and criticism.--United States
Folk music--History and criticism.--United States
Musique populaire--Histoire et critique.--États-Unis
Musique folklorique--Histoire et critique.--États-Unis
MUSIC--Instruction & Study--Theory.
Popular music.
Folk music.
Music.
United States.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ML200.5 / .G35 2018e
781.630973
Weird American music : case studies of Underground Resistance, BarlowGirl, Jackalope, Charles Ives, and Waffle House Music / Dorothea Gail. - 1 online resource (413 pages) - American Studies - A Monograph Series, volume 299 0178-1987 ; . - American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 299. .
Habilitation--Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Underground Resistance: "They Keep Calling Me": Ghosts, Post-Collapse Resistance, and the African American Imaginary in Detroit Techno -- BarlowGirl: Warrior virgins and the therapeutic family in Chicago Christian rock -- Jackalope: R. Carlos Nakai, Larry Yáñez, and the ironies of Southwestern hybridity -- Charles Ives: The reception of a New England hero and the classical music cult -- Waffle House music: Advertising as Southern folk art -- Conclusion: fade out.
"The author takes Greil Marcus's capacious category of 'weirdness' in new directions to examine a tension in certain expressions of American music and music communities since the 1980s. It locates this tension in the space between the artists' striving for authenticity in the values they want to communicate on the one hand, and the demands of the marketplace on the other. The results are 'weird' in both the economic and artistic sense. The book follows five different case studies: Underground Resistance, BarlowGirl, Jackalope, the latter-day reception of Charles Ives, and Waffle House Music. All have struggled against co-optation, and arguably faced defeat in their efforts to stay authentic during an era in which lifestyle and ethnicity have become commodified, and both religious and humanistic values have become products."--Provided by publisher
9783825378530 (electronic bk.) 3825378535 (electronic bk.) 3825369560 9783825369569 (hardbound) (hardbound)
9783825369569
1900-1999
Music--History and criticism.--United States--20th century
Popular music--History and criticism.--United States
Folk music--History and criticism.--United States
Musique populaire--Histoire et critique.--États-Unis
Musique folklorique--Histoire et critique.--États-Unis
MUSIC--Instruction & Study--Theory.
Popular music.
Folk music.
Music.
United States.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ML200.5 / .G35 2018e
781.630973