Performing Class in British Popular Music

by N. Wiseman-Trowse

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780230219496
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/30/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Class Act Class and Popular Music Theory The Problem of Authenticity Performing Class The Folk Voice Folk Revival and Folk Rock Punk and Hardcore Dream Pop and Madchester Conclusion: A Different Class Notes Bibliography Discography Index

Editorial Reviews

'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' - Martin James, Times Higher Education

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