Hole in Our Soul The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music

Name: Hole in Our Soul The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music
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ISBN: 9780226039596

ISBN-10: 0226039595

ISBN-13: 9780226039596

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Martha Bayles

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From Queen Latifa to Count Basie, Madonna to Monk, Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music traces popular music back to its roots in jazz, blues, country, and gospel through the rise in rock 'n' roll and the emergence of heavy metal, punk, and rap. Yet despite the vigor and balance of these musical origins, Martha Bayles argues, something has gone seriously wrong, both with the sound of popular music and the sensibility it expresses. Bayles defends the though, affirmative spirit of Afro-American music against the strain of artistic modernism she calls 'perverse.' She describes how perverse modernism was grafted onto popular music in the late 1960s, and…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 461
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.89" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The Weird Music of the New World



Introduction



Why Music Is the Wild Card



The Three Strains of Modernism



The Obstacle of Race



The Taint of Commerce



Cubists and Squares: Jazz as Modernism



From Rock 'n' Roll to Rock



The Strange Career of 1950s Rock 'n' Roll



Rock 'n' Rollers or Holy Rollers?



Reaction and Revitalization



Another Country Heard From



Blues, Blacks, and Brits



Inspiration and Polarization



Words and Music: The Rise of the Counterculture



Art and Religion, 1960s Style



Hard Rock Becomes a Hard Place



Soul Loses Its Soul



The Triumph of Perversity



Their Art Belongs to Dada



Punk: The Great Avant-Garde Swindle



High on High Tech



Rap: Trying to Make it Real (Compared to What?)



You Don't Miss Your Water (Till Your Well Runs Dry)



Coda: Escape from Postmodernism


Notes


Index