Rock This Way : : Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy.
In order to analyze how transformative musical works are culturally understood, this book examines how mainstream press discourse talks about them. According to professional journalistic norms, press discussion is supposed to be neutral and balanced. This is, of course, a fiction, because press is t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2023. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Notes: | Court cases listed in "References" (page 201). |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Rock This Way, or the Shape of Musical Norms
- 1. Judge a Song by Its Cover: Cover Songs between Transformation and Extraction
- 2. Stir It Up: Remix and the Problem of Genre
- 3. Monstrous Mash: Mash-Ups and the Epistemology of Difference
- 4. Fight for Your Right to Parody: Parodies and the Cultural Politics of Kindness
- 5. Feels like the First Time: The Politics and Poetics of Similarity in Soundalikes
- Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Ethical Transformative Musical Works
- Data Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index.