I Wanna Be Me: Rock Music and the Politics of Identity
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.10.2001
Verlag
Temple University PressSeitenzahl
328
Maße (L/B/H)
28.7/14.4/2.2 cm
Gewicht
422 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-56639-903-6
Gracyk sees rock as a mass art, open-ended and open to diverse (but not unlimited) interpretations. Recordings reach millions, drawing people together in communities of listeners who respond viscerally to its sound and intellectually to its messages. As an art form that proclaims its emotional authenticity and resistance to convention, rock music constitutes part of the cultural apparatus from which individuals mold personal and political identities. Going to the heart of this relationship between the music's role in its performers' and fans' self-construction, Gracyk probes questions of gender and appropriation. How can a feminist be a Stones fan or a straight man enjoy the Indigo Girls? Does borrowing music that carries a "racial identity" always add up to exploitation, a charge leveled at Paul Simon's Graceland?
Ranging through forty years of rock history and offering a trove of anecdotes and examples, I Wanna Be Me, like Gracyk's earlier book, "should be cherished, and read, by rockers everywhere" (Salon).
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