Overview

Particularly since the 1950s, cars and popular music have been constantly associated. As complementary goods and intertwined technologies, their relationship has become part of a widely shared experience—one that connects individuals and society, private worlds and public spheres. Popular Music and Automobiles aims to unpack that relationship in more detail. It explores the ways in which cars and car journeys have shaped society, as well as how we have shaped them. Including both broad synergies and specific case studies, Popular Music and Automobiles explores how attention to an ongoing relationship can reveal insights about the assertion and negotiation of identity. Using methods of enquiry that are as diverse as the topics they tackle, its contributors closely consider specific genders, genres, places and texts.

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Author:   Dr. Mark Duffett (University of Chester, UK) ,  Dr. Beate Peter (Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9781501352300

ISBN 10:   150135230
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   09 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Mark Duffett, University of Chester, United Kingdom 1. Rock 'n' Roll: Cars, Convergence, and Culture Tim Wall and Nick Webber (Birmingham City University, UK) 2. 'She’s My Little Deuce Coupe': Freudian Transformations in the Car Songs of The Beach Boys Georgina Gregory (University of Central Lancashire, UK) 3. Music Is the Vehicle: Queen's ""Don't Stop Me Now,"" Top Gear, and the Driving Anthem Roddy Hawkins (University of Manchester, UK) 4. The Passenger? Gender, Cars, Mobility, and Dance Music Katie Milestone (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 5. Rave Journeys: Intimacy, Liminality, and the Changing Notion of Home Beate Peter (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 6. Driving on the A470: Cars and Roads in Welsh-language Popular Music Craig Owen Jones (Bangor University and Coleg Cymraeg, Cenedlaethol, Wales) 7. 'Ich will Spaß, ich geb Gas': German Pop between Fun and Subversion Barbara Hornberger (University of Hildesheim, Germany) Translated from German by Kerstin Bueschges 8. Las Chivas: Fiesta in Motion Santiago Niño Morales (Distrital 'Francisco José de Caldas', Bogotá, Colombia) 9. Listening to Music in Cars while Black: Popular Music, Automobility, and the Murder of Jordan Davis Amanda Nell Edgar (University of Memphis, USA) 10. Crash! Music Press Coverage of Performers in Automobile Accidents Mark Duffett (University of Chester, UK) Notes References Index"

Reviews

Popular Music and Automobiles is a fresh take on a profoundly powerful socio-musicological combination. Not only do chapters cover canonical US examples (e.g. The Beach Boys) from new perspectives, but there are case studies from Wales, England, Germany, and Colombia. Authors cover both the more celebratory aspects of pop and cars as well as more difficult topics such as press coverage of popular musicians in car crashes and the role of music in White supremacist violence against those who are so-called 'driving while black.' * Justin A. Williams, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Bristol, UK, and co-editor, with Katherine Williams, of The Singer-Songwriter Handbook (Bloomsbury, 2017) * Mark Duffett and Beate Peter's Popular Music and Automobiles not only helps remedy the paucity of writings on this subject, but does so in an entertaining and informative fashion. This book sheds new light on two postwar pop culture passions and their relationship to each other. * Timothy D. Taylor, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and author of Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present (2016) and Music in the World: Selected Essays (2017) *

Author Information

Mark Duffett is a Gales-listed academic author, known for two decades of research in popular music studies and fan studies. He is writer of Understanding Fandom (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Counting Down Elvis (2018), editor of Popular Music Fandom (2015), Fan Identities and Practices in Context (2018), and editor or co-editor of several special edition journals for Popular Music and Society, Rock Music Studies, and the IASPM journal. Beate Peter is Senior Lecturer in German at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. As a member of the Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences at MMU, she is currently leading a team of researchers that investigate the role that music (acid house) played in shaping the social, political, and cultural landscape in Britain. She is also a convener of Manchester’s Music and Sonic Studies research network. Her research interests focus on music and identity, in particular the role of affect and musical memories.

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