The migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism are traced in this book. The result of this migration is a widespread fatalism over the ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in popular music.The book synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and theory from romanticism through postmodernism; alternative music such as feminist punk and grunge; political economy, which has fueled the obsession with commercial incorporation; and subcultural sociology.
- ISBN10 0761908358
- ISBN13 9780761908357
- Publish Date 8 May 1997 (first published 20 March 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 235
- Language English
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