Historical Theory and Methods through Popular Music, 1970-2000: "Those are the New Saints"

by Kenneth L. Shonk, Jr., Daniel Robert McClure

Overview

This book examines the post-1960s era of popular music in the Anglo-Black Atlantic through the prism of historical theory and methods. By using a series of case studies, this book mobilizes historical theory and methods to underline different expressions of alternative music functioning within a mainstream musical industry. Each chapter highlights a particular theory or method while simultaneously weaving it through a genre of music expressing a notion of alternativity—an explicit positioning of one’s expression outside and counter to the mainstream. Historical Theory and Methods through Popular Music seeks to fill a gap in current scholarship by offering a collection written specifically for the pedagogical and theoretical needs of those interested in the topic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137570727
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/17/2017
Series:	Pop Music, Culture and Identity
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	311
File size:	596 KB

About the Author

Daniel Robert McClure is Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Irvine, Chapman University, and California State University, Fullerton.

Kenneth L. Shonk, Jr. is Assistant Professor of World History and Social Studies Education at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. 

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Those are the new saints.- 2. “‘400 Years’: Modernity, the Longue Durée, and Jamaican Music, 1600s-1980s”.- 3.“This Charming Man: Queer and Alternative Masculinities, 1970-1994”.- 4.“Will the Wolf Survive?”: Chicana/o Identity and Punk Rock in Los Angeles, 1977-2000.”.-5. “A Perfect New Loop: Hip-Hop, Deindustrialization, and the Post-Civil Rights Era, and Hip-Hop, 1973-2000”.- 6. “The Pride of History”: Post-Punk and the Aesthetics of Postmodernity.- 7. “Waveless—MTV and the ‘Quiet’ Feminism of the 1980s”.- 8. “Hiraeth—The Celtic Moment in 1980s Alternative Rock”.- 9. “Feels Blind: Counter-Hegemony in Alternative Rock during the Reagan/Thatcher Era”.- 10. “No Depression: The Nostalgia and Authenticity of Alternative Country”.- 11. Conclusion.