Making popular music : musicians, creativity and institutions /
Jason Toynbee.
- xxiv, 199 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-190) and index. Includes discography.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Market: the selling of soul(s) -- Adorno, equivalence and the market -- Entrepreneurs and innovation -- Music markets and the political economy of popular music -- Growing up broken up: the emergence of institutional autonomy -- Proto-markets and author-stars -- Making up and showing off: what musicians do -- Music-making and the radius of creativity -- Social authorship and voice -- Mingus Fingers -- Performance - theatre and process -- Performance - loud, clear and interrupted -- Technology: the instrumental instrument -- Audio recording - a case of late development -- Dissemination and crystallization -- Ventriloquism -- Tape delay (1) - on the cusp of the big sound -- Tape delay (2) - making space -- Aesthetics and politics in the Wall of Sound -- Multitracking and experimenting with time -- Programmed bears in the new age of dance -- Coda: technological determinism and gendered power -- Genre-cultures -- The sound of genre -- The inevitability of genre - the case of free music -- Community, subculture and the structural homology -- Commodity form, or genres across time, space and race -- Dance music: business as usual or heaven on earth? -- Dance music: context -- From house to drum and bass: two kinds of generic change -- Agency, creativity and the aesthetics of dance -- Dance music networks: corporal and economic -- Record companies, producers and the politics of production -- Conclusion - creating in small amounts -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.