Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth

Karen Kelly, Evelyn McDonnell

NYU Press, 1999 - Broj stranica: 287

Music industry insiders on the nature of fame

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 image of the tortured rock star, MTV, the politics of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the joy of line-dancing, and more.

The contributors are James Bernard, Anthony DeCurtis, Katherine Dieckmann, Chuck Eddy, Paul Gilroy, Daniel Glass, Lawrence Grossberg, Jessica Hagedorn, Kathleen Hanna, James Hannaham, Dave Hickey, Jon Langford, Greil Marcus, Angela McRobbie, Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky), Barbara O'Dair, Ann Powers, Toshi Reagon, Simon Reynolds, Robert Santelli, Jon Savage, Danyel Smith, Arlene Stein, Deena Weinstein, and Ellen Willis.

Sadržaj

• A Note on the Series: 8
• All This Useless Beauty: 17
• Commerce: 24
• Myth and Commerce in the Music Business: 31
• Angela McRobbie: 37
• Concealing the Hunger: 51
• Deconstructing a Useful Romantic Illusion: 57
• Performance and Image: 71
• Goth and the Glorification of Suffering in Rock Music: 79
• MTV Killed the Music Video Star: 88
• Same As It Ever Was Rock Theory: 99
• Kathleen Hanna: 123
• Cinderella at the Headbangers Ball: 134
• Jon Savage: 145
• Crowds and Freedom: 153
• Miller DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid: 161
• Dave Hickey: 177
• Ann Powers: 183
• Freedom Songs Love Songs: 193
• TechnoRomanticism: 199
• Gender Rock n Roll and Resistance: 215
• Keeping Time: 231
• Myth Memory and History: 237
• Rock Critics Rock Women: 245
• Music for Gangsters and Other Chameleons: 253
• Analogues of Mourning Mourning the Analog: 260
• Bibliography: 272
• List of Contributors: 279

Bibliografski podaci

• Naslov: Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth; A Dia Center for the Arts Book Series; Dia Center for the Arts discussions in contemporary culture series; Discussions in contemporary culture
• Urednici: Karen Kelly, Evelyn McDonnell
• Suradnik: Dia Center for the Arts (New York, N.Y.)
• Izdanje: ilustrirano
• Izdavač: NYU Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0814747272, 9780814747278
• Duljina: Broj stranica: 287