Apocalypse Jukebox : The End of the World in American Popular Music.
Başlık:
Apocalypse Jukebox : The End of the World in American Popular Music.
Yazar:
Whitelock, Edward.
ISBN:
9781593763367
Yazar Ek Girişi:
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (336 pages)
İçerik:
C O N T E N T S -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1: APOCALYPSE USA -- 1. The End Is Near, There, and Everywhere -- The Heavens on Fire -- Apocalypse Rock of Ages -- 2. Are You Ready for that Great Atomic Power? -- I Heard the News Today, oh God -- I Sing the Body Atomic -- PART 2: FOUR HORSEMEN OF APOCALYPSE -- 3. The Harry Smith Apocalypse of American Folk Music -- The Phonograph Needle and the Damage Undone -- America's Transparent Eye-Ball -- Harry Smith's Rebirth of Wonder -- 4. John Coltrane's Harmonic Convergence -- Apocalypse on the Half-Note -- A Million Vibrations -- 5. Bob Dylan's Poetics of Apocalypse: The Case of "Infidels" -- Dylan's Secular Endings -- Dylan's Profane Laughter -- The Incurable Romantic -- Fire and Brimstone -- The Attitude of an Infidel -- Leonard Cohen: Sacred Soul, Profane Flesh -- Autobiography of a Stranger -- New Sin for an Old Ceremony: The Stranger as Lover -- Last Call at the Apocalypse Bar & Grille: The Stranger as Prophet -- PART 3: ARTIFACTS FROM THE BLAST ZONE -- 7. The End, And?: Arthur Lee's Death Trip -- The King of Infinite Space -- It's dark there, they say" -- The Third Coming -- A Prophetic House Is not an Apocalyptic Motel -- 8. "The Beginning Was the End": Devo's Beautiful(Postapocalyptic) World -- "Intelligence can be eaten" -- Let's Do the "Time Loop" Again -- The Strategic Pose -- "No one gets away until they whip it" -- 9. "Calling Out": R.E.M.'s Apocalyptic Evocations -- Decide Yourself and Put That on Your Wall -- Calling Out to Take Our Turn -- Tell Now What is Dreaming -- PART 4: APOCALYPSE AFTER 9/11: THE ENDIS STILL HERE -- 10. "Here Come the Planes": Laurie Anderson's Concert Amidst the Ashes -- Must the Show Go On? -- Language is a Virus -- This Storm is Called Progress -- 11. Apocalypse Now/Here: Sleater-Kinney's Resistance -- Now Here's Alright -- Apocalypse is Different for a Grrrl.
Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Millennium? -- "The Grammar of Skin" and "The Grammar of Faith" -- 12. Green Day's American Idiot: Apocalypse in the 7-Eleven Parking Lot -- These Adolescent Upstarts Will Bring Us Down -- The Kids Aren't Alright -- Dispatches from the Heart's Apocalypse -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 305 -- NOTES 307.
Özet:
From its indefinite beginnings through its broad commercialization and endless reinterpretation, American rock-and-roll music has been preoccupied with an end-of-the-world mentality that extends through the whole of American popular music. In Apocalypse Jukebox, Edward Whitelock and David Janssen trace these connections through American music genres, uncovering a mix of paranoia and hope that characterizes so much of the nation's history. From the book's opening scene, set in the American South during a terrifying 1833 meteor shower, the sense of doom is both palpable and inescapable; a deep foreboding that shadows every subsequent development in American popular music and, as Whitelock and Janssen contend, stands as a key to understanding and explicating America itself. Whitelock and Janssen examine the diversity of apocalyptic influences within North American recorded music, focusing in particular upon a number of influential performers, including Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, Devo, R.E.M., Sleater-Kinney, and Green Day. In Apocalypse Jukebox, Whitelock and Janssen reveal apocalypse as a permanent and central part of the American character while establishing rock-and-roll as a true reflection of that character.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Tür:
Yazar Ek Girişi:
Elektronik Erişim:
Click to View