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Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time. Edited by Ian Inglis. (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series.) Burlington, VT: Ash-gate, 2005. [xvi, 205 p. ISBN 0-7546-4056-6. $99.95.] Bibliography, index.
Imagine reducing rock history to a handful of moments, linchpins on which a whole genre might have turned, or as editor Ian Inglis states in the introduction, "signposts to the turbulent, unpredictable and constantly surprising history of rock'n'roll" (p. xvi). This is, in essence, Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time (part of the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series): an exploration of the context surrounding fifteen formative moments in popular music. Inglis hopes to correct academics' "neglect" of live popular music performance, a regrettable but perhaps understandable tendency in scholarship considering the availability of sound and video recordings of popular musicians and the ever-increasing cost of live concerts.
The authors of this collection are a varied group, and it shows in their approaches to the recurrent themes of authenticity/identity and audience reaction/response: a little over half of the contributors have a background in the social sciences and this is reflected in the cultural studies bent in most of the essays. Approaches range from feminist studies to analysis based on camera angles and television production. The performances themselves are representative of several popular music genres including folk,...
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