Pop Music and Easy Listening
- Author: Hawkins, Stan
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction
- Part I Aesthetics and Authenticity: 'Sing it for me': posthuman ventriloquism in recent popular music, Joseph Auner
- Art versus technology: the strange case of popular music, Simon Frith
- Pearls and swine: the intellectuals and the mass media, Simon Frith and Jon Savage
- Remodeling Britney Spears: matters of intoxication and mediation, Stan Hawkins and John Richardson
- The production of success: an anti-musicology of the pop song, Antoine Hennion
- In excess? Body genres, 'bad' music, and the judgment of audiences, Leslie M. Meier
- Hits and misses: crafting a pop single for the top-40 market in the 1960s, Robert Toft. Part II Groove, Sampling and Production: Frank Sinatra: the television years - 1950-1960, Albert Auster
- Mediating music: materiality and silence in Madonna's Don't Tell Me, Anne Danielsen and Arnt MaasA
- Sample and hold: pop music in the digital age of reproduction, Andrew Goodwin
- 'Caught in a whirlpool of aching sound': the production of dance music in Britain in the 1920s, Mark Hustwitt
- Spice world: constructing femininity the popular way, Dafna Lemish
- Modelling the groove: conceptual structure and popular music, Lawrence M. Zbikowski. Part III Subjectivity, Ethnicity and Politics: Like a virgin-mother? Materialism and maternalism in the songs of Madonna, Barbara Bradby
- 'That ill, tight sound': telepresence and biopolitics in post-Timbaland rap production, Dale Chapman
- Sex, pulp and critique, Eric F. Clarke and Nicola Dibben
- Pop and the nation-state: towards a theorisation, Martin Cloonan
- Believe? Vocoders, digitalized female identity and camp, Kay Dickinson
- Music and Canadian nationhood post 9/11: an analysis of Music Without Borders: Live, Susan Fast and Karen Pegley
- Black pop songwriting 1963-1966: an analysis of US top 40 hits by Cooke, Mayfield, Stevenson, Robinson, and Holland-Dozier-Holland, Jon Fitzgerald
- 'A fifth of Beethoven': disco, classical music, and the politics of inclusion, Ken McLeod
- 'The di