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Pop When the World Falls Apart: Music in the Shadow of Doubt
Publisher Duke University Press Books
Publication Date 2012-04-09
Section Academic New Arrivals / Music
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780822351085
Hearing Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan once said, was "like busting out of jail." But what happens when popular music isn't as simple as rock-and-roll rebellion? How does pop respond to such events as a decade-long war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina? In Pop When the World Falls Apart, a diverse array of music writers, scholars, and enthusiasts reflect on popular music's role—as commentary, as refuge, and as rallying cry—in times of military conflict, social upheaval, and cultural crisis.
Drawn from presentations at the annual Experience Music Project Pop Conference, hailed by Robert Christgau as "the best thing that's ever happened to serious consideration of pop music," the essays in this collection encompass inquiries into the sonic dimension of the war in Iraq, the cultural life of jazz in post-Katrina New Orleans, Isaac Hayes's appropriation of the country song "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" as a symbol of black nationalism, and punk-rock pranks played on record execs looking for the next big thing in central Virginia. Offering a diverse range of perspectives and approaches, Pop When the World Falls Apart mirrors the eclecticism of pop itself.
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