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GENERAL POP/ROCK
- All Music
Guide As the name suggest, a very comprehensive guide
to all forms of pop, rock and related musics.
- ArtistDirect:
Music Very comprehensive mainstream site with links to
message boards, chat rooms, fan sites, and news on performers.
- Billboard
Magazine Long the main industry magazine, famous for its
top sellers charts. Site includes much useful info, especially
on the business side of pop music.
- Experience
Music Project Located non-virtually in a stunning Frank
Gehry designed building in Seattle, this virtual sight includes
much great info on the history and present of rock music.
- Lyrics
World Excellent collection of lyrics to all Top 40 songs
in every year from 1930 to 1999.
- MTV Online
Good source for videos and information on mainstream music scene.
- Music.com
Very comprehensive commercial site for info on the industry and
locating music online.
- Mining
Company—Classic Rock Good resource for lyrics, and
all sorts of other information on rock ‘n’ roll scenes.
- Rockmine
A gold mine archive of non-commercial info on rock music, past
and present.
- Rolling
Stone Magazine Good source for reviews and other information
on current music scene.
- Sonic
Net Videos Includes many clips and downloads of whole
videos. Good resource for getting images to study.
- VH1 Online
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ONLINE ARTICLES
- Adorno
Meets “Lo-Fi” Rock A brief critical aside from
a review/exploration
of Sonic Youth’s Confusion Is Sex album.
- Backspinning
Signifying A history (and defense) of breakbeats and sampling,
with references to everyone from Jorge Luis Borges to Afrika Bambaataa
to Walter Benjamin.
- Consumer
Society and Authenticity: The (Il)Logic of Punk Practices
An examination of the punk phenomenon(s) as a response to late
capitalism and Reaganomics.
- Dancing
Between the Notes: Music and Asian American Panethnicity
A look at two CDs (by folk group A Grain of Sand and hip-hop musician
Jamez) and the influence music has had on the Asian American community.
- The
Death of Copyright, the Rise of Women, and Rock in a Socialist
State A multi-faceted production analysis of the rock
industry, with some very interesting arguments. [Because of the
section on copyright, it is important to note that this article
appeared before the Napster phenomenon.]
- “Don’t
Smoke, Don’t Drink, Don’t Fuck”: Straight Edge
Culture in the 90s An ethnographic look at what may be
the first white, middle-class subculture.
- 4
Real: Authenticity, Performance, and Rock Music Can a
“real” rock star be “authentic”?
- From
Refrain to Rave: The Decline of Figure and the Rise of Ground
A polemical piece about raves and what they might mean.
- Genre
and Recalcitrance: Country Music’s Move Uptown Examines
the evolution/creation of the Nashville Sound.
- Hip-Hop
Nation Time magazine’s take on how hip-hop
has “transformed the culture of America.”
- I
Am the Eye, You Are My Victim Explores “the pornographic
quality of music video,” with a view to disarming it.
- “I’ll
Never Be an Angel”: Stories of Deception in Madonna’s
Music A thorough analysis of several aspects of Madonna’s
music.
- The
90s Minstrels Traces a brief history of minstrelesque
depictions of African Americans, tying the tradition into the
modern phenomenon of gangsta rap.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum: The Construction
of Memories and the Sanitation of Threats Stewart Varner,
in Reconstructrions tracing the museum as part of the mainstreaming
of radical currents in rock.
- The
Poverty of Alt.Country A critique of the alternative country
movement.
- Rap,
Black Rage, and Racial Difference A lengthy exploration
of rap and hip-hop culture, specifically gangsta rap, calling
attention to various issues.
- Reading,
Writing, & Rap: Literacy as Rap Sound System by Josh
Kun.
- Rhyme
and Resist: Organizing the Hip-Hop Generation Can hip-hop
provide a path into political action?
- Rock
Resistance and the Resistance to Rock Why has there been
an increase of conservative attacks on rock, just when rock has
ceased to be a tool of resistance?
- Theorizing
the Body in African-American Music Looks at Western attitudes
toward music and the body—which attitudes, the author claims,
have distorted our perceptions of (and reactions to) African music
and its African-American descendents.
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HIGHLY SELECTED, ALWAYS ECLECTIC, SOMETIMES ELECTRIC,
ROCK, RAP AND POP SITES BY ARTIST OR GROUP
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GENERAL LINKS FOR SELECTED TYPES
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HIP-HOP CULTURE AND RAP
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BLUES
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GOSPEL
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JAZZ
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GENERAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC SITES
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FURTHER REFERENCE
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
[Few topics
on popular culture can be adequately researched on the Web alone.
These reading suggestions are designed as beginning points for further
offline study.]
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Aparicio, Frances. Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular
Music and Puerto Rican Cultures. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1998. |
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Aparicio combines musicology, sociology, ethnic studies and
women's studies perspectives into a rich look at the cultural
meanings of popular music, both in the Euro-american culture and in Latina/o cultures. |
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Kaplan, E. Ann. Rocking Around the Clock: Music Television,
Postmodernism and Consumer Culture. New York: Methuen, 1987. |
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Sophisticated analysis of the relations among MTV videos, consumer
culture, and the psychodynamics of identity formation in youth. |
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Lipsitz, George. Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism
and the Poetics of Place. London; New York: Verso, 1994. |
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Incisive study of various musical ethnic subcultures and their
complex negotiations with the dominant culture and their co-resisters
in a global/local struggle over meaning. |
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Marcus, Greil. Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock and
Roll Music. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1975. |
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The revised American Studies dissertation of one of America’s
foremost rock critics is a searching study of the gritty roots
of what has become glossy pop culture. |
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Pratt, Ray. Rhythm and Resistance: The Political Uses of
Popular Music. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 1994. |
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Examines the political impact of spirituals, gospel, the blues,
and rock ‘n’ roll in American culture. |
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Rose, Tricia. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in
Contemporary America. Hanover, NH: Published by University Press
of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 1994. |
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Arguably the best book yet on rap, this study analyses both
the political economic cultural roots of rap, and its textual
meanings. |
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Ross, Andrew, Tricia Rose, and Andrew Rose, eds. Microphone
Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture. New York: Routledge, 1994. |
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Excellent collection of essays on rock, rap, heavy metal, dance
scenes, and the youth cultures that surround them. |
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