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Performing Class in British Popular Music
Nathan Wiseman-Trowse
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Description for Performing Class in British Popular Music
Hardcover. This new study of British popular music shows how it engages with class in mythical ways that allow audiences to perform class-based identities. Case studies on folk rock, punk and indie rock show how this performance works and explore the implications for listeners and audiences. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AVGP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
This new study of British popular music shows how it engages with class in mythical ways that allow audiences to perform class-based identities. Case studies on folk rock, punk and indie rock show how this performance works and explore the implications for listeners and audiences.
This new study of British popular music shows how it engages with class in mythical ways that allow audiences to perform class-based identities. Case studies on folk rock, punk and indie rock show how this performance works and explore the implications for listeners and audiences.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230219496
SKU
V9780230219496
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Nathan Wiseman-Trowse
NATHAN WISEMAN-TROWSE is Senior Lecturer in Popular Culture and Course Leader for the BA in Popular Music at the University of Northampton, UK, as well as being an Executive Board member for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, UK and Ireland branch.
Reviews for Performing Class in British Popular Music
'It is when Wiseman-Trowse applies the oft-discussed discourses of class and authenticity to performative theory that popular music studies is taken into rarely charted waters. Here he uses Judith Butler's analysis of sexuality, gender and desire as a model through which to argue that subjectivity becomes related to performance as well as the discourses that surround it... incisive and compelling' ... Read more