| Description |
1 online resource (x, 379 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
What is bad music? / Simon Frith -- White trash alchemies of the abject sublime : country as "bad" music / Aaron A. Fox -- Pop music, racial imagination, and the sounds of cheese : notes on loser's lounge / Jason Lee Oakes -- Bad world music / Timothy D. Taylor -- Theorizing the musically abject / Elizabeth Tolbert -- Does Kenny G play bad jazz? : a case study / Christopher Washburne -- The flight from banality / James Koehne -- The good, the bad, and the folk / Richard Carlin -- Film, music, and the redemption of the mundane / Giorgio Biancorosso -- A moment like this : American idol and narratives of meritocracy / Matthew Wheelock Stahl -- Extreme noise terror : punk rock and the aesthetics of badness / Angela Rodel -- Glitch, the beauty of malfunction / Torben Sangild -- Glitches, bugs, and hisses : the degeneration of musical recordings and the contemporary musical work / Eliot Bates -- Rock critics need bad music / Deena Weinstein -- Much too loud and not loud enough : issues involving the reception of staged rock musicals / Elizabeth L. Wollman -- Trivial music (Trivialmusik) : "preface" and "trivial music and aesthetic judgment" / Carl Dahlhaus ; translated by Ulrike Sailer ; introductory comments by Walter Frisch |
| Summary |
Why are some popular musical forms and performers universally reviled by critics and ignored by scholars-despite enjoying large-scale popularity? How has the notion of what makes "good" or "bad" music changed over the years-and what does this tell us about the writers who have assigned these tags to different musical genres? Many composers that are today part of the classical "canon" were greeted initially by bad reviews. Similarly, jazz, country, and pop musics were all once rejected as "bad" by the academy that now has courses on these and many other types of music. This book addresses why this is so through a series of essays on different musical forms and performers. It looks at alternate ways of judging musical performance beyond the critical/academic nexus, and suggests new paths to follow in understanding what makes some music "popular" even if it is judged to be "bad." For anyone who has ever secretly enjoyed ABBA, Kenny G, or disco, Bad Musicwill be a guilty pleasure! |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- History and criticism.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Appreciation.
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Music
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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Musikästhetik
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Popmusik
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Trivialmusik
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Muziek.
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Smaak (cultuur)
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Musikestetik.
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Musikfilosofi.
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Musikkritik.
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Musiksmak.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Washburne, Christopher
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Derno, Maiken, 1972-
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| ISBN |
0203309049 |
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9780203309049 |
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9781135385408 |
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1135385408 |
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9780203954461 |
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0203954467 |
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9780203954461 |
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9786610240654 |
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6610240655 |
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9781135946845 |
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1135946841 |
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