The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class is the first extensive analysis of the most important themes and concepts in this field. Encompassing contemporary research in ethnomusicology, sociology, cultural studies, history, and race studies, the volume explores the intersections between music and class, and how the meanings of class are asserted and denied, confused and clarified, through music. With chapters on key genres, traditions, and subcultures, as well as fresh and engaging directions for future scholarship, the volume considers how music has thought about and articulated social class. It consists entirely of original contributions written by internationally renowned scholars, and provides an essential reference point for scholars interested in the relationship between popular music and social class. Cover Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Ian Peddie Part I Methodologies 1 Being In-Between: Popular Music and Middlebrow Taste Morten Michelsen 2 The Impact of Social Class on Parental Responses to Popular Music in Britain, c. 1955–1975 Gillian A. M. Mitchell 3 Social Class and the Negotiation of Selling Out in a Southern California Indie Rock Scene Timothy D. Taylor 4 It’s Up to You: Class, Status, and Punk Politics in Rock against Racism Rebecca Binns 5 Hegemony, Symbolic Violence, and Popular Music Education: A Matter of Class Alison Butler and Ruth Wright 6 “Every Noise at Once”: Online Music Discovery Maps and Cosmopolitan Subjectivities Matthew Ord 7 Art at the Cutting Edge: Class, Cultures, and Globalization in African World Music Mark LeVine 8 Songs of the Outcast: Popular Music, Class, and Censorship in the PRC Hon-Lun Yang Part II Theoretical Approaches 9 Gaahl—Monster or Postmodern Prometheus? Masculinity, Class, and Norwegian Black Metal Stan Hawkins and Nina Nielsen 10 Women’s Music, #20GAYTEEN, and Lesbian Hip-Hop: Shifting Voices of Class, Race, and Sexuality in WSW’s Popular Musics Kirsten Zemke 11 “I Dream It, I Work Hard”: Race, Class, and Labor in US Popular Music Rachel Rubin and James Smethurst 12 Class, Religion, and Music: Concepts and Questions Sean McCloud 13 Hard Hats and Hoodies: The Songs of Two Working-Class British Protest Singers Aileen Dillane and Martin J. Power 14 Brothers in Rock: Argentine and British Rock Music during the Malvinas/Falklands War Mara Favoretto 15 “Dances for the Masses”: Revolution, Class, Proletarian Music, and Dance in Cold War Ukraine Sergei I. Zhuk Part III Genres 16 LeRoi Jones, Jazz, and the Resonance of Class Bruce Barnhart 17 The Blues and the Development of the African American Working Class before World War II Roberta Freund Schwartz 18 “Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man”: Country Music, Respect(ability), and Social Class Travis D. Stimeling 19 The Long March to the Top of the Social Ladder: Neo-Folk Music in Socialist Yugoslavia and Post-Socialist Serbia Irena Šentevska 20 From Consent to Resistance: Punk Rock and Social Class Cyrus Shahan 21 The Bourgeois Blues? Rock Music and Class Chris McDonald 22 Sufferers in Babylon: A Rastafarian Perspective on Class and Race in Reggae Martin A. M. Gansinger 23 “Bring It on Home”: Constructions of Social Class in Rhythm and Blues and Soul Music, 1949–1980 David M. Jones 24 The Routes of Hip-Hop in Cape Town: Collective Performance Practices and the Embodied Sociality of the Ghetto Sudiipta Shamalii Dowsett 25 Electronic Popular Music as Site and Sign of Social Class: A Multidimensional Analysis William Echard 26 Class Divisions and the Overlaps of Taste in New Digital Popular Music Formats in China Lijuan Qian 27 Music Maketh Man: Meritocracy in Kingsman: The Secret Service Miguel Mera Index