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Article: Interpreting Popular Music.
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By David Brackett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [xiv, 260 p. ISBN 0-521-47337-3. $54.95.]
Job listings, curricula, and publishers' catalogs all confirm it: we are in a boom time for academic popular-music studies. This is a good thing inasmuch as it helps redress the exclusion from our histories and our classrooms of most of the music that artists have created and audiences have cared about during the twentieth century. Only when mass-mediated texts and practices have been studied with the seriousness and rigor that have illuminated the products of modernism can we fully comprehend our era's peculiar and constitutive cultural hierarchy. Scholarly ...