On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word
- Author: Frith, Simon
- Author: Goodwin, Andrew
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Contents
- Preface PART ONE • GROUNDWORKS Listening to Popular Music
- The Dialogue of Courtship in Popular Song
- The Young Audience
- PART TWO • FROM SUBCULTURAL TO CULTURAL STUDIES The Golden Age
- Style as Homology and Signifying Practice
- Settling Accounts with Subcultures: A Feminist Critique
- Defending Ski-Jumpers: A Critique of Theories of Youth Subcultures
- Characterizing Rock Music Culture: The Case of Heavy Metal
- Is There Rock After Punk? PART THREE • THE ORGANIZATION OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems
- Cycles in Symbol Production: The Case of Popular Music
- Patterns of Change PART FOUR • THE CREATIVE PROCESS The Production of Success: An Antimusicology of the Pop Song
- From Craft to Art: The Case of Sound Mixers and Popular Music
- The Realities of Practice
- How Women Become Musicians
- Sample and Hold: Pop Music in the Digital Age of Reproduction PART FIVE • MUSICOLOGY AND SEMIOTICS Start Making Sense! Musicology Wrestles with Rock
- The Grain of the Voice
- On Popular Music
- Second Thoughts on a Rock Aesthetic: The Band
- Jingle: Pepsi-Cola Hits the Spot
- Listen to Me
- Do-Talk and Don’t-Talk: The Division of the Subject in Girl-Group Music PART SIX • MUSIC AND SEXUALITY Rock and Sexuality
- Sexing Elvis
- Teenage Dreams
- In Defense of Disco
- Afterthoughts PART SEVEN • READING THE STARS Rock Music, the Star System, and the Rise of Consumerism
- Rocket to Russia
- In Praise of Kate Bush
- New Pop and Its Aftermath
- Corrupting the Absolute PART EIGHT • LAST WORDS: THE FANS SPEAK Starlust