Music/Culture
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Series Editors: Deborah Wong, University of California; Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas; Jeremy Wallach, Bowling Green State University, Ohio

The Wesleyan Music/Culture series has consistently reshaped and redirected music scholarship. Founded in 1993 by George Lipsitz, Susan McClary, and Robert Walser, the series features outstanding critical work on music. Unconstrained by disciplinary divides, the series addresses music and power through a range of times, places, and approaches. Music/Culture strives to integrate a variety of approaches to the study of music, linking analysis of musical significance to larger issues of power—what is permitted and forbidden, who is included and excluded, who speaks and who gets silenced. From ethnographic classics to cutting-edge studies, Music/Culture zeroes in on how musicians articulate social needs, conflicts, coalitions, and hope. Books in the series investigate the cultural work of music in urgent and sometimes experimental ways, from the radical fringe to the quotidian. Music/Culture asks deep and broad questions about music through the framework of the most restless and rigorous critical theory.

Popular Music in Theory Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 249
ISBN: 9780819563101
Pub Date: 30 Mar 1997
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Description:
Winner of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Book Award (1998)Popular Music in Theory is an original introduction to the key theoretical issues which arise in the study of contemporary popular music. It is organized in a way that shows how popular music is created across a series of relationships that link together industry and audiences, producers and consumers. Starting from the dichotomy between production and consumption which characterizes much work on popular culture, Keith Negus explores the equally significant social processes that intervene between and across the production-consumption divide, and examines how popular music is mediated by technological, cultural, historical, geographical, and political factors.
Club Cultures Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 201
ISBN: 9780819562975
Pub Date: 07 Apr 1996
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 5 illus. 2 figs. 3 charts.
Description:
Focusing on youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves in Great Britain and the U.S., Sarah Thornton highlights the values of authenticity and hipness and explores the complex hierarchies that emerge within the domain of popular culture.