Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music - Couverture rigide

Barker, Hugh; Taylor, Yuval

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393060780 ISBN 13 : 9780393060782

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2007

Synopsis

Did Elvis sing from the heart, or was he just acting? Were the Sex Pistols more real than disco? Why do so many musicians base their approach on being authentic, and why do music buffs fall for it every time? By investigating this obsession in the last century through the stories of John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Jimmie Rodgers, Donna Summer, Leadbelly, Neil Young, Moby, and others, Faking It rethinks what makes popular music work. Along the way, the authors discuss the segregation of music in the South, investigate the predominance of self-absorption in modern pop, reassess the rebellious ridiculousness of rockabilly and disco, and delineate how the quest for authenticity has not only made some music great and some music terrible but also shaped in a fundamental way the development of popular music in our time.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Hugh Barker, formerly a musician and songwriter, works in publishing in London.

Yuval Taylor is the coauthor of Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop and Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Antioch Review, the Oxford American, and other publications. He lives in Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393060780
• ISBN 13: 9780393060782
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible