Stories We Could Tell
Stories We Could Tell How has the history of rock 'n' roll been told? Or remained, like the music itself, open to outside influences? Has it become formulaic? What common frameworks or sets of…
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Stories We Could Tell
How has the history of rock 'n' roll been told? Or remained, like the music itself, open to outside influences? Has it become formulaic?
What common frameworks or sets of assumptions have music history narratives shared? Who have been the genre's primary historians? And, most importantly, what is the cost of failing to question such assumptions?
"Stories We Could Tell: Putting Words to American Popular Music" identifies eight typical strategies used when critics and historians write about American popular music, and subjects each to forensic analysis. This posthumous book is a unique work of cultural historiography that analyses, catalogues, and contextualizes music writing in order to afford the reader new perspectives on the field of cultural production, and offer new ways of thinking about, and writing about, popular