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Nothing Has Been Done Before: Seeking the New in 21st-Century American Popular Music(Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music)

Nothing Has Been Done Before: Seeking the New in 21st-Century American Popular Music(Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music)


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Is there such a thing today as music that's meaningfully new? In our contemporary era of remixing and retro styles, cynics and romantics alike cry "It's all been done before" while record labels and media outlets proclaim that everything is new. Coded into our daily conversations about popular music, newness as an artistic and cultural value is too often taken for granted.

Nothing Has Been Done Before instigates a fresh debate about newness in American pop, rock 'n' roll, rap, folk, and R&B made since the turn of the millennium. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that combines music criticism, philosophy, and the literary essay, Robert Loss follows the stories of a diverse cast of musicians who seek the new by wrestling with the past, navigating the market, and speaking politically. The transgressions of Bob Dylan's "Love and Theft". The pop spectacle of Katy Perry's 2015 Super Bowl halftime show. Protest songs against the war in Iraq. Nothing Has Been Done Before argues that performance heard in a historical context always creates a possibility for newness, whether it's Kendrick Lamar's multi-layered To Pimp a Butterfly, the Afrofuturist visions of Janelle Monáe, or even a Guided By Voices tribute concert in a local dive bar.

Provocative and engaging, Nothing Has Been Done Before challenges nothing less than how we hear and think about popular music—its power and its potential.



Table of Contents:

Prologue: Nothing Has Been Done Before

Part 1: The Past in the Present
Revivals Are Revisions: New Millennial Folk Music Rolls the Dice
"Love and Theft": Transgression and the Cultural Archive
The Problem of Knowing Too Much: Meta-Rock and the Anxiety of Influence
Sounds Before Our Time: Replicating the Old to Make the New

Part 2: The American Wow
Spectaglam! Katy Perry and the American Wow
The New Digital Empire: Consumerism, Technology, and the New
We Can Flux: Prince Queers Democracy and the New
Kanye's Night at the Museum: The Iconoclast Goes to Work
Power Up: Persona and Anonymity Trouble the American Wow

Part 3: Shouting at the Hard of Hearing
On the Good Side: Anti-War Music in the 2000s
Shouting at the Hard of Hearing: Springsteen Finds a New Audience
Living in the Interval: Political Hip Hop, Rap, Revolution, and To Pimp a Butterfly
Bodies in the River: Tradition and "The Body Electric"

Epilogue: Nothing Has Been Done Before, Again

Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments and Permissions
Index



About the Author :
Robert Loss is an assistant professor in Writing, Literature, and Philosophy at Columbus College of Art and Design, USA.

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The ever prized prospect of the ‘new’ excites and nourishes the commercial music industry as much as it does the desire of musicians to shape their own space within its leaky borders. In Nothing Has Been Done Before Robert Loss cuts an idiosyncratic path through late 20th and 21st century popular music, tipping its hat to the renowned and the obscure along the way. Wearing his musical proclivities and political beliefs on his sleeve, Loss visits amongst others the familiar subjects of race, gender, protest song, and the role of technology to frame his hunt for the elusive signs of newness in popular music. His witty, characterful, and occasionally provocative style simultaneously draws you into the conversation of newness and invites critical response. Utterly original and erudite, Loss has written a book for music lovers that will inspire and instigate in equal measure. Robert Loss's writing is characterized by unstoppable historical curiosity, true storytelling, and the unusual combination of intellectual ambition and modesty--all qualities that play out with incisive strength in Nothing Has Been Done Before.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781501322020
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Sub Title: Seeking the New in 21st-Century American Popular Music
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1501322028
  • Publisher Date: 02 Nov 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music
  • Weight: 440 gr


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