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Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth (Dia Center for the Arts Book)
Kelly
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Description for Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth (Dia Center for the Arts Book)
Paperback. With contributions by musicians, music critics, scholars and people in the music industry, this book discusses popular music and the process by which it has been mythologized by its audience, its chroniclers and its analysts. Editor(s): Kelly, Karen. Num Pages: 400 pages, 50 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: AVGP; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 16. Weight in Grams: 612.
Our cultural darlings make music; we make them mythic. Every musical genre begets a community of listeners, performers, and critics, and quite often those categories are blurred. From the principled punk refusal of celebrity to hip-hop's celebration of its power, the music world is self-obsessed. Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky assembles scholars, music writers, industry workers, and musicians, who offer a range of opinions and experience of the nature of fame. The collection focuses on commerce, the crowd, performance and image, history and memory, and romance. Contributors discuss black women icons, love-songs, the legacy of the blues, the ... Read more
Our cultural darlings make music; we make them mythic. Every musical genre begets a community of listeners, performers, and critics, and quite often those categories are blurred. From the principled punk refusal of celebrity to hip-hop's celebration of its power, the music world is self-obsessed. Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky assembles scholars, music writers, industry workers, and musicians, who offer a range of opinions and experience of the nature of fame. The collection focuses on commerce, the crowd, performance and image, history and memory, and romance. Contributors discuss black women icons, love-songs, the legacy of the blues, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
NYU Press New York
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814747278
SKU
V9780814747278
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Ref
99-15
About Kelly
Karen Kelly is Director of Publications and Special Projects at Dia Center for the Arts. Until recently the music editor at the Village Voice, Evelyn McDonnell is the coeditor of Rock She Wrote, and author of a history of the musical Rent.
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