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The ^AOxford Handbook of Country Music
Country music studies is a thriving interdisciplinary field. The Oxford Handbook of Country Music draws upon the expertise of leading and emerging scholars to present an introduction into the historiographical narratives and methodological issues that have emerged in country music studies' first half-century and to suggest potential avenues for further research.
The Philosopher King
Texas-born T Bone Burnett is an award-winning musician, songwriter, and producer with over forty years of experience in the entertainment industry. In The Philosopher King, Heath Carpenter evaluates and positions Burnett as a major cultural catalyst by grounding his work, and that of others abiding by a similar "roots" ethic, in the American South. Carpenter examines select artistic productions created by Burnett to understand what they communicate about the South and southern identity. He also extends his analysis to artists, producers, and cultural tastemakers who operate by an ethic and aesthetic similar to Burnett's, examining the interests behind the preservationist/heritage movement in...
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis
Music videos promote popular artists in cultural forms that circulate widely across social media networks. With the advent of YouTube in 2005 and the proliferation of handheld technologies and social networking sites, the music video has become available to millions worldwide, and continues to serve as a fertile platform for the debate of issues and themes in popular culture. This volume of essays serves as a foundational handbook for the study and interpretation of the popular music video, with the specific aim of examining the industry contexts, cultural concepts, and aesthetic materials that videos rely upon in order to be both intelligible and meaningful. Easily accessible to viewers in ...
Music, Sound and Identity in Video Games
This book offers a comprehensive overview of how video game sound and music represent cultures, spaces and personal identifications. Focusing on the concept of identity, the volume brings together issues as diverse as belonging to an ethnic or cultural group, identifying with certain sexualities or being able to deduce the historical or geographical context of a game. This volume explores whether the musical and sound identities linked to video games are based on clichés and stereotyped arrangements that span cultures and times. It includes case studies that analyse the mechanisms used by game producers, composers and sound designers to “characterise” and represent different identities to broad audiences of potential players, as well as how the players perceive these sonic inputs. The book is organized into three main sections, covering topics as the representation of historical periods, musical stereotypes of cultures from different geographic locations, representations of identity in fictional spaces and sonic depictions gender.
Cold War Country
Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn’t just happen. This readable history reveals how country music’s Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling the music to servicemembers. Beginning in the 1950s, the military flooded armed forces airwaves with the music, hosted tour dates at bases around the world, and drew on artists from Johnny Cash to Lee Greenwood to support recruitment programs. Over the last half of the twentieth century, the close connections between the Defense Department and Music Row gave an economic boost t...
Songwriting in Contemporary West Virginia
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on the Sources -- Introduction -- Part I: Charleston -- Ron Sowell -- Larry Groce -- Julie Adams -- John Lilly -- Dina Hornbaker -- Mike Pushkin -- Colleen Anderson -- Mike Arcuri -- Roger Rabalais -- Part II: The Ohio Valley -- Todd Burge -- Lionel Cartwright -- Taryn Thomas -- Patrick Stanley -- Jim Savarino -- Part III: The Eastern Panhandle -- Adam Booth -- Chelsea McBee -- Part IV: the Southern Coalfields -- Elaine Purkey -- Shirley Stewart Burns -- Roger Bryant -- Scott Holstein -- Part V: The Tamarack Scene -- Doug Harper -- Clinton Collins -- Mark Spangler -- Andrew Adkins -- Part VI: Morgantown -- Maria Allison -- Pam Spring -- Chris Haddox -- Steve Smith -- Dan Cunningham -- Notes and Interviews
Whose Country Music?
Questions and challenges the systems of gatekeeping that have restricted participation in twenty-first century country music culture.
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