I Wanna Be Me: Rock Music And The Politics Of Identity (Sound Matters)
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (968 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1566399033 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Not rock criticism, but an academic study of rock music Passionate About Music Another book about rock music by a college professor that is published by an academic publisher. It's an academic study. There are lots of footnotes.So I hate to see this book criticized by reviewers for being what it is, an academic study. It is not for everyone. It is not INTENDED for everyone. So of course it's boring, long-winded and dry for anyone who doesn't understand what kind of book it is.It's a book about the reasons that people give when they accuse white blues players of being racists, or say that punk rock is more authentic than pop music, or say that the Rolling Stones are sexist. It analyzes and critic. Overblown academia DARREN LINDER I was excited to read this book. I was lured into picking it up by the great photo of Ani DiFranco on the cover with her dreadlocks, acoustic guitar, and tribal tattoo across her chest, her whole face smiling with the power of the music. Looking through the book I found references to Tori Amos, Soundgarden, X, Frank Zappa, the Riot Grrl movement, The Who, Beastie Boys, The Clash, Peter Gabriel, Chili Peppers, Janis Joplin, Indigo Girls, etc. This and the chapter titles make the book sound like a good cultural analysis of music of the last few decades.Wrong. This entire book reeks of being some college professor's bori
In I Wanna Be Me, his second book about the music he cares so much about, Gracyk grapples with the ways that rock shapes - limits and expands - our notions of who we can be in the world.. As someone who feels the emotional power of rock and who writes about it as an art form, Theodore Gracyk has been praised for launching arguments destined to change the future of rock and roll
From Library Journal In this follow-up to Rhythm and Noise: An Aesthetics of Rock, Gracyk (philosophy, Minnesota State Univ., Moorhead) proves himself to be an extraordinary cognoscente of rock music. Bill Piekarski, Angelicus Webdesign, Lackawanna, NY Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. With his knowledgeable and well-presented arguments, he challenges readers to reconsider the stereotypes that many modern titans of cultural studies have slapped on rock music, e.g., that it isn't really music, that it is both sexist and racist, and that its commercial success and easy coziness with the corporate world clearly prove that it is naught but a Machiavellian scheme calculated to separate young fools from their (parents') money. . This book belongs on the shelf of almost every academic library and will also be an outstanding asset to either popular music or cultural studies collections. Gracyk's extensive evidence includes innumerab