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  • Making Popular Music: Musicians, Creativity and Institutions

    Making Popular Music by Toynbee, Jason;

    Musicians, Creativity and Institutions

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    Short description:

    Drawing on a
    wide range of theoretical positions, as well as examining musical texts
    from twentieth-century pop,this groundbreaking
    book develops a powerful case for the importance of production in
    contemporary culture. Students of cultural and media studies, music and
    the performing arts will find this book an invaluable resource.

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    Long description:

    *Nominated for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Book Prize*



    Partly
    because they are the objects of such intense adulation by fans popular
    musicians remain strangely enigmatic figures, shrouded in mythology.
    This book looks beyond the myth and examines the diverse roles music
    makers have had to adopt in order to go about their work: designer,
    ventriloquist, star, delegate of the people. The musician is a divided
    subject and jack of all trades



    However the story does
    not end here. Arguing against that strand in cultural studies which
    deconstructs all claims for authorship by the individual artist, Jason
    Toynbee suggests that creativity should be reconceived rather than
    abandoned. He argues that what is needed is a sense of 'the radius of
    creativity' within which musicians work, an approach that takes into
    account both the embedded collectivism of popular music practice and the
    institutional power of the music industries.



    Drawing on a
    wide range of theoretical positions, as well as examining musical texts
    from across the history of twentieth-century pop,this groundbreaking
    book develops a powerful case for the importance of production in
    contemporary culture. Students of cultural and media studies, music and
    the performing arts will find this book an invaluable resource.

    More