The Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (515 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00CE7MQ5Y |
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| Number of Pages | : | 205 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Highly recommended.". "An engaging exploration of dedicated music fan bases that emerged in the 1970s
"Morris is one to watch" according to Damon Parker. The title is misleading since the author cannot hope to capture the profound topic of sentiment or the music of a decade in a slim volume. It reads like a PhD and subsequent journal articles in its narrow content and the linking mechanism (gender) is not fully teased out or supplemented with a more thorough analysis - actually aching for more analysis because this guy is definitely onto the topic. What is analysed within the narrow scope is done very well and is erudite and compulsive reading. Morris, in reaching out to other disciplines for analytical content is to . "Read it!" according to Nancy C. Anderson. One to think on once read.
In more recent years, beginning with the "Seventies Revival" of the early 1990s, additional perspectives and layers of interpretation have allowed not only a deeper understanding of these songs' function than when they were first popular, but also an appreciation of how their significance has shifted for American listeners in the succeeding three decades.. These artists were all members of more or less disadvantaged social categories: members of racial or sexual minorities, victims of class and gender prejudices, advocates of populations excluded from the mainstream. The complicated commercial world of pop music in the 1970s allowed the greater promulgation of musical styles and idioms that spoke to and for exactly those stigmatized audiences. Morris examines the specific musica