Listening to popular music, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love Led Zeppelin / Theodore Gracyk.
It has long been assumed that people who prefer Led Zeppelin to Mozart live aesthetically impoverished lives. But why? In Listening to Popular Music, award-winning popular music scholar Theodore Gracyk argues that aesthetic value is just as important in popular listening as it is with serious music....
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | Tracking pop.
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Table of Contents:
- Aesthetics without elitism. Separating aesthetics from art ; Clearing space for aesthetic value ; Aesthetic principles and aesthetic properties
- The aesthetic value of the popular. Appreciating, valuing, and evaluating music ; The ideas of hearing and listening
- Listening as engagement with symbols. Music's worldly uses ; Taste and musical identity.