UID:
almahu_9949297094402882
Format:
1 online resource (552 p.)
ISBN:
9781478021391
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9783110743319
Series Statement:
Refiguring American Music : 25
Content:
In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing on his background editing the Village Voice music section, coediting the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and organizing the Pop Conference, Weisbard connects American music writing from memoirs, biographies, and song compilations to blues novels, magazine essays, and academic studies. The authors of these works are as diverse as the music itself: women, people of color, queer writers, self-educated scholars, poets, musicians, and elites discarding their social norms. Whether analyzing books on Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, and Madonna; the novels of Theodore Dreiser, Gayl Jones, and Jennifer Egan; or varying takes on blackface minstrelsy, Weisbard charts an alternative history of American music as told through its writing. As Weisbard demonstrates, the most enduring work pursues questions that linger across time period and genre-cultural studies in the form of notes on the fly, on sounds that never cease to change meaning.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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Introduction --
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Part I Setting the Scene --
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First Writer, of Music and on Music --
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Blackface Minstrelsy Extends Its Twisted Roots --
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Shape-Note Singing and Early Country --
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Music in Captivity --
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Champion of the White Male Vernacular --
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Notating Spirituals --
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First Black Music Historian --
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Child Ballads and Folklore --
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Women Not Inventing Ethnomusicology --
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First Hit Songwriter, from Pop to Folk and Back Again --
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Novelist of Urban Pop Longings --
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Americana Emerges --
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Documenting the Story --
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Tin Pan Alley's Sheet Music Biz --
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First Family of Folk Collecting --
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Proclaiming Black Modernity --
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Songcatching in the Mountains --
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Part II The Jazz Age --
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Stories for the Slicks --
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Remembering the First Black Star --
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Magazine Criticism across Popular Genres --
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Harlem Renaissance --
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Tin Pan Alley's Standards Setter --
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Broadway Musical as Supertext --
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Father of the Blues in Print --
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Poet of the Blare and Racial Mountain --
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Blessed Immortal, Forgotten Songwriter --
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Tune Detective and Expert Explainer --
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Pop's First History Lesson --
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Roots Intellectual --
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Jook Ethnography, Inventing Black Music Studies --
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What He Played Came First --
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Jazz's Original Novel --
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Introducing Jazz Critics --
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Part III Midcentury Icons --
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Folk Embodiment --
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A Hack Story Soldiers Took to War --
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From Immigrant Jew to Red Hot Mama --
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White Negro Drug Dealer --
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Composer of Tone Parallels --
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Jazz's Precursor as Pop and Art --
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Field Recording in the Library of Congress Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz," 1950 --
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Dramatizing Blackness from a Distance --
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Centering Vernacular Song --
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Writing about Records --
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Collective Oral History to Document Scenes --
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The Greatest Jazz Singer's Star Text --
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Beat Generation --
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Borderlands Folklore and Transnational Imaginaries --
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New Yorker Critic of a Genre Becoming Middlebrow --
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Part IV Vernacular Counterculture --
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Blues Revivalists --
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Britpop in Fiction --
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Form-Exploding Indeterminacy --
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Science Fiction Writer Pens First Rock and Roll Novel --
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Pro-Jazz Scene Sociology --
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Reclaiming Black Music --
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An Endless Lit, Limited Only in Scope --
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Music as a Prose Master's Jagged Grain --
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How to Succeed in . . . --
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Schmaltz and Adversity --
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New Journalism and Electrified Syntax --
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Defining a Genre --
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Swing's Movers as an Alternate History of American Pop --
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Rock and Roll's Greatest Hyper --
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Ebony's Pioneering Critic of Black Pop as Black Power --
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Entertainment Journalism and the Power of Knowing --
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An Over-the- Top Genre's First Reliable History --
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Rock Critic of the Trivially Awesome --
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Black Religious Fervor as the Core of Rock and Soul --
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Jazz Memoir of "Rotary Perception" Multiplicity --
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Composing a Formal History --
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Krazy Kat Fiction of Viral Vernaculars --
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Derrière Garde Prose and Residual Pop Styles American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, 1972 --
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Charts as a New Literature --
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Selling Platinum across Formats --
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Blues Relationships and Black Women's Deep Songs --
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"Look at the World in a Rock 'n' Roll Sense . . . What Does That Even Mean?" --
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Cultural Studies Brings Pop from the Hallway to the Classroom --
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A Life in Country for an Era of Feminism and Counterculture --
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Introducing Rock Critics --
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Patriarchal Exegete of Black Vernacular as "Equipment for Living" --
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Reading Pop Culture as Intellectual Obligation --
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Paging through Books to Make History --
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Historians Begin to Study Popular Music --
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Musicking to Overturn Hierarchy --
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Drool Data and Stained Panties from a Critical Noise Boy --
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Part V After the Revolution --
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Punk Negates Rock --
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The Ghostwriter behind the Music Books --
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Disco Negates Rock --
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Industry Schmoozer and Black Music Advocate Fills Public Libraries with Okay Overviews --
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Musicology's Greatest Tune Chronicler --
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Criticism's Greatest Album Chronicler --
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Rock's Frank Capra --
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Culture Studies/Rock Critic Twofer --
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A Magical Explainer of Impure Sounds --
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Feminist Rock Critic, Pop-Savvy Social Critic --
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New Deal Swing Believer Revived --
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Ethnomusicology and Pop, Forever Fraught --
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Autodidact Deviance, Modeling the Rock Generation to Come --
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The Rolling Stones of Rolling Stones Books --
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Finding the Blackface in Bluegrass --
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Cyberpunk Novels and Cultural Studies Futurism --
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Glossy Magazine Features Writer Gets History's Second Draft --
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Theorizing Sound as Dress Rehearsal for the Future --
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Classic Rock, Mass Market Paperback Style --
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Love and Rockets, Signature Comic of Punk Los Angeles as Borderland Imaginary --
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Plays about Black American Culture Surviving the Loss of Political Will --
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Putting Pop in the Big Books of Music --
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Popular Music's Defining Singer and Swinger --
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Anti-Epic Lyricizing of Black Music after Black Power --
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Lost Icon of Rock Criticism --
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Veiled Glimpses of the Songwriter Who Invented Rock and Roll as Literature --
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Making "Wild-Eyed Girls" a More Complex Narrative --
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Reporting Black Music as Art Mixed with Business --
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Sessions with the Evil Genius of Jazz --
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Part VI New Voices, New Methods --
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Literature of New World Order Americanization --
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Ethnic Studies of Blended Musical Identities --
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Ballad Novels for a Baby Boomer Appalachia --
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Pimply, Prole, and Putrid, but with a Surprisingly Diverse Genre Literature --
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How Musicology Met Cultural Studies --
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Idol for Academic Analysis and a Changing Public Sphere --
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Black Bohemian Cultural Nationalism --
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From Indie to Alternative Rock --
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Musicology on Popular Music- In Pragmatic Context --
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Listening, Queerly --
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Blackface as Stolen Vernacular --
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Media Studies of Girls Listening to Top 40 --
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Ironies of a Contested Identity --
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Two Generations of Leading Ethnomusicologists Debate the Popular --
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Defining Hip-Hop as Flow, Layering, Rupture, and Postindustrial Resistance --
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Regendering Music Writing, with the Deadly Art of Attitude --
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Soundscaping References, Immersing Trauma --
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Sociologist Gives Country Studies a Soft-Shell Contrast to the Honky-Tonk --
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All That Not-Quite Jazz --
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Jazz Studies Conquers the Academy --
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Part VII Topics in Progress --
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Paradigms of Club Culture, House and Techno to Rave and EDM --
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Performance Studies, Minoritarian Identity, and Academic Wildness --
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Left of Black: Networking a New Discourse --
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Aerobics as Genre, Managing Emotions --
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Confronting Globalization --
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Evocations of Cultural Migration Centered on Race, Rhythm, and Eventually Sexuality --
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Digging Up the Pre-Recordings Creation of a Black Pop Paradigm --
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When Faith in Popular Sound Wavers, He's Waiting --
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Codifying a Precarious but Global Academic Field --
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Salsa and the Mixings of Global Culture --
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Musicals as Pop, Nationalism, and Changing Identity --
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Musical Fiction and Criticism by the Greatest Used Bookstore Clerk of All Time --
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Poetic Ontologies of Black Musical Style --
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Rescuing the Afromodern Vernacular --
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Sound Studies and the Songs Question The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction, 2003 --
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Dylanologist Conventions --
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Two Editions of a Field Evolving Faster Than a Collection Could Contain --
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Revisionist Bluesology and Tangled Intellectual History --
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Trying to Tell the Story of a Dominant Genre --
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Refiguring American Music- And Its Institutionalization --
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Country Music Scholars Pioneer Gender and Industry Analysis --
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Where Does Classical Music Fit In --
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Poptimism, 33⅓ Books, and the Struggles of Music Critics --
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Novelists Collegial with Indie Music --
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YouTube, Streaming, and the Popular Music Performance Archive --
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Idiosyncratic Musician Memoirs-Performer as Writer in the Era of the Artist as Brand --
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Acknowledgments --
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Works Cited --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
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Language:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478021391
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478021391
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