The Sounds of Capitalism

2012-06-19 History

Author : Timothy D. Taylor
Release : 2012-06-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 149/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Sounds of Capitalism written by Timothy D. Taylor. This book was released on 2012-06-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since the 1920s, songs originally written for commercials have become popular songs, and songs written for a popular audience have become irrevocably associated with specific brands and products. Today, musicians move flexibly between the music and advertising worlds, while the line between commercial messages and popular music has become increasingly blurred. Timothy D. Taylor tracks the use of music in American advertising for nearly a century, from variety shows like The Clicquot Club Eskimos to the rise of the jingle, the postwar upsurge in consumerism, and the more complete fusion of popular music and consumption in the 1980s and after. The Sounds of Capitalism is the first book to tell truly the history of music used in advertising in the United States and is an original contribution to this little-studied part of our cultural history.

Music and Capitalism

2016 Business & Economics

Author : Timothy D. Taylor
Release : 2016
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 97X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Music and Capitalism written by Timothy D. Taylor. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren’t musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical—they are products and brands. In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasively capitalism has shaped music over the last few decades. Examining changes in the production, distribution, and consumption of music, he offers an incisive critique of the music industry’s shift in focus from creativity to profits, as well as stories of those who are laboring to find and make musical meaning in the shadows of the mainstream cultural industries. Taylor explores everything from the branding of musicians to the globalization of music to the emergence of digital technologies in music production and consumption. Drawing on interviews with industry insiders, musicians, and indie label workers, he traces both the constricting forces of bottom-line economics and the revolutionary emergence of the affordable home studio, the global internet, and the mp3 that have shaped music in different ways. A sophisticated analysis of how music is made, repurposed, advertised, sold, pirated, and consumed, Music and Capitalism is a must read for anyone who cares about what they are listening to, how, and why.

The Sounds of Capitalism

2012-07-27 Business & Economics

Author : Timothy D. Taylor
Release : 2012-07-27
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 157/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Sounds of Capitalism written by Timothy D. Taylor. This book was released on 2012-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Timothy D. Taylor tracks the use of music in American advertising for nearly a century, from variety shows like 'The Clicquot Club Eskimons' to the rise of the jingle, from the postwar growth of consumerism, to the more complete fusion of popular music and consumption in the 1980s and after.

The James Bond Songs

2015-08-31 Music

Author : Adrian Daub
Release : 2015-08-31
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 547/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The James Bond Songs written by Adrian Daub. This book was released on 2015-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with 1964's Goldfinger, every James Bond film has followed the same ritual, and so has its audience: after an exciting action sequence the screen goes black and the viewer spends three long minutes absorbing abstract opening credits and a song that sounds like it wants to return to 1964. In The James Bond Songs authors Adrian Daub and Charles Kronengold use the genre to trace not only a changing cultural landscape, but also evolving conceptions of what a pop song is. They argue that the story of the Bond song is the story of the pop song more generally, and perhaps even the story of its end. Each chapter discusses a particular segment of the Bond canon and contextualizes it in its era's music and culture. But the book also asks how Bond and his music reflected and influenced our feelings about such topics as masculinity, race, money, and aging. Through these individual pieces the book presents the Bond song as the perfect anthem of late capitalism. The Bond songs want to talk about the fulfillment that comes from fast cars, shaken Martinis and mindless sex, but their unstable speakers, subjects, and addressees actually undercut the logic of the lifestyle James Bond is sworn to defend. The book is an invitation to think critically about pop music, about genre, and about the political aspects of popular culture in the twentieth century and beyond.

Sounds of the Underground

2016-04 History

Author : Stephen Graham
Release : 2016-04
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 753/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sounds of the Underground written by Stephen Graham. This book was released on 2016-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly examination of underground music in the digital age

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