| Description |
1 online resource (413 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
American Studies - A Monograph Series,
0178-1987 ;
volume 299
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American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 299.
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| Note |
Habilitation--Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 2017. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Popular music. |
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Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Folk music. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gail, Dorothea. Weird American music. Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2018] 9783825369569 (OCoLC)1085382188 |
| ISBN |
9783825378530 (electronic book) |
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3825378535 (electronic book) |
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3825369560 |
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9783825369569 |
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9783825369569 (hardbound) |
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3825369560 (hardbound) |
| Standard No. |
9783825369569 |
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