Authorship Roles in Popular Music: Issues and Debates

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Authorship Roles in Popular Music applies the critical concept of auteur theory to popular music via different aspects of production and creativity. Through critical analysis of the music itself, this book contextualizes key concepts of authorship relating to gender, race, technology, originality, uniqueness, and genius and raises important questions about the cultural constructions of authenticity, value, class, nationality, and genre. Using a range of case studies as examples, it visits areas as diverse as studio production, composition, DJing, collaboration, performance and audience. This book is an essential introduction to the critical issues and debates surrounding authorship in popular music. It is an ideal resource for students, researchers, and scholars in popular musicology and cultural studies. Cover Title Copyright CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Studio/Label as Auteur 2 Gender and Degrees of Popular Music Authorship 3 The Singular and the Collective: The Writer as Auteur 4 The Interpreter as Auteur 5 The Producer/Remixer as Auteur 6 The Zeitgeist as Auteur: Contexts, Scenes, Technologies Coda: The Searcher and the Sought Index