The Rock Cover Song: Culture, History, Politics by Doyle Greene

By Doyle Greene

hide songs function as a kind of cultural discourse throughout a variety of musical genres and diversified societal, historic and political stipulations. Case experiences comprise a comparative research of Jimi Hendrix’s and Whitney Houston’s models of “The Star-Spangled Banner” in addition to a mapping of the trajectory of “(I Can’t Get No) pride” from the unique model by way of the Rolling Stones via conceal models by way of Otis Redding, Devo, and Britney Spears.
the novel deconstruction of dad and rock songs through the citizens and Laibach can also be tested, with extra experiences of canopy songs by way of akin to Van Halen, Kim Wilde, Rufus Harley, the 4 Tops, Pat Boone and Johnny Cash.
instead of questions of caliber or how a canopy track measures up as “better or worse” than different models, this e-book makes a speciality of the ideological implications and social stakes of the “same outdated songs” as they're reconfigured to think about, touch upon and confront political problems with gender, sexuality, race, the countryside and the iteration gap.

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