Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2010 - Music - 267 pages
The cover phenomenon in popular culture may be viewed as a postmodern manifestation in music as artists revisit, reinterpret and re-examine a significant cross section of musical styles, periods, and genres. This book features a collection of critical perspectives on many facets of cover songs in popular music.
 

Contents

A Collage and Chronicle
11
Song Assimilation Through
43
The Cover Song as Historiography Marker of Ideological
77
Emergent Authenticity in a Japanese Popular
99
Past as Prelude
127
GENDER IDENTITY
137
Bob Dylan
177
A Case of Collegiate A Cappella
191
Will Pop Eat Itself?
205
Commerce and Credibility
223
Stereophony
243
Index
265
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George Plasketes is Professor of Radio-Television-Film and Popular Culture in the Department of Communication & Journalism at Auburn University, USA.

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