The Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (678 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520275993 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"An engaging exploration of dedicated music fan bases that emerged in the 1970s. Highly recommended."
These artists were all members of more or less disadvantaged social categories: members of racial or sexual minorities, victims of class and gender prejudices, advocates of populations excluded from the mainstream. How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music? Why do certain performers have such emotional power, even though their music is considered vulgar or second rate? In The Persistence of Sentiment, Mitchell Morris gives a critical account of a group of American popular music performers who have dedicated fan bases and considerable commercial success despite the critical disdain they have endured. In more recent years, beginning with the Seventies Revival” of the early 1990s, additional perspectives and layers of interpretation have allowed not only a deeper understanding of these songs' function than when they were first popular, but also an appreciation of how their significance has shifted for American listeners in the succeeding three decades.. Morris examines the specific musical features of some exemplary pop songs and draws attention to the social contexts that contributed to their popularity as well as their dismissal. The complicated commercial world of pop music in the 1970s allowed the greater promulgation of musical st
Morris is one to watch Damon Parker The title is misleading since the author cannot hope to capture the profound topic of sentiment or the music of a decade in a slim volume. It reads like a PhD and subsequent journal articles in its narrow content and the linking mechanism (gender) is not fully teased out or supplemented with a more thorough analysis - actually aching for more analysis because this guy is definitely onto the topic. What is analysed within the narrow scope is done very well and is erudite and compulsive reading. Morris, in reaching out to other disciplines for analytical content is to be commended, an. Read it! Nancy C. Anderson One to think on once read.