Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism: Anger Is an Energy

By Neil Nehring

Book Overview

The migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism are traced in this book. The result of this migration is a widespread fatalism over the ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in popular music.

The book synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and theory from romanticism through postmodernism; alternative music such as feminist punk and grunge; political economy, which has fueled the obsession with commercial incorporation; and subcultural sociology.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761908358
• ISBN13: 9780761908357
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"