Everyday culture : popular song and the vernacular milieu / edited by Michael Pickering and Tony Green.
| Other author | Pickering, Michael, editor. |
| Other author | Green, Tony, 1936- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Milton Keynes ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1987. |
| Description | x, 194 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Popular music in Britain Popular music in Britain. ^A281097 |
| Contents | Towards a cartography of the vernacular milieu / Michael Pickering and Tony Green -- The past as a source of aspiration: popular song and social change / Michael Pickering -- Parody and performance / Ian Russell -- James Lyons: singer and story-teller: his repertory and aesthetic / Tony Green -- Westcountry gipsies: key songs and community identity / Sam Richards -- The ethnogenics of music performance: a case study of the Glebe Live Music Club / John L. Smith -- Conclusion: studying the everyday arts / Michael Pickering and Tony Green. |
| Abstract | Everyday culture is the participatory process of making sense and meaning in ordinary social life, using whatever material is at hand. It involves the creative effort to make viable ways of life and coherent identities in the local worlds in which people live. Songs assimilated into this everyday culture are part of the symbolic resources by which identity and community are established and affirmed. Today, the old paradigm of 'folk culture' with which such songs have usually been associated is beginning to disintegrate. New ways of thinking about vernacular song and culture are needed. This collection of essays points the way forward. The contributors focus on major issues that have been relatively neglected in vernacular song study: popular conceptions and uses of the past, parody, repertory, key songs, and the social organization of performance contexts. The editors also undertake a much-needed theoretical overview of the study of vernacular popular song, concluding with an emphasis upon contextualization and self-reflexivity as essential components of cultural analysis. This book reconstitutes the study of song performance in a vernacular milieu. It shows in detail how popular song in everyday life remains a significant mode of cultural communication and artistic expression. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages 179-188) and index. |
| Bibliography note | Discography: pages 189. |
| Biographical note | "Michael Pickering is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at Sunderland Polytechnic. He is the author of Village Song and Culture (1982), which won the 1983 Katharine Briggs Memorial Award, as well as various other publications on popular song and music. He has also published in the areas of popular religion, working class writing, documentary and social investigation. He was co-organiser of the 1983 conference on Popular Culture in the North East, and is a member of the editorial board of the Folk Music Journal"--Back cover. |
| Biographical note | "Tony Green is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Bretton Hall College, and formerly Lecturer in Folk Life Studies in the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies, University of Leeds. He is the co-editor (with John Widdowson) of Language, Culture and Tradition (1981) and has published in the fields of popular song and verse, vernacular language and humour and popular theatre and spectacle."--Back cover. |
| LCCN | 87022094 |
| ISBN | 0335152899 : |
| ISBN | 9780335152896 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML3492 .E9 1987 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |