[Commlist] New Book - Media Narratives in Popular Music

Out this week - /Media Narratives in Popular Music/ - an edited 
collection from Martin James and Chris Anderton.

The book examines how popular music has been mediated through academic 
and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television 
documentaries. The contributors question how and why these publications 
construct linear narratives through simplifications, exaggerations and 
omissions – creating ‘official’ narratives that reduce the messiness of 
history to one-dimensional interpretations. They critique these 
narratives in a variety of ways and help to reveal the hidden histories 
of popular music.

*Introduction
/Chris Anderton and Martin James (Solent University, UK)/
/
/SECTION 1 – Narratives of Identity

1. Hidden in Plain Sight: Stories of Gender, Generation and Political 
Economy on the Northern Soul Scene
/Tim Wall (Birmingham City University, UK) and Sarah Raine (Edinburgh 
Napier University, UK)/*

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2. /Paid My Dues/: Key Debates in the 1970s Feminist Music Press
/Ann-Marie Hanlon (Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland)/
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/3. “They're Not In It Like The Man Dem”: How Gendered Narratives 
Contradict Patriarchal Discourse in Electronic Dance Music
/Julia Toppin (University of Hertfordshire, UK)/
/
/4. "Who Controls the Present Controls the Past. Who Controls the Past 
Controls the Future”: Washing Islam from the Media Narratives of Hip-Hop
/Martin James (Solent University, UK)/
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/SECTION 2 – Narratives of Genre
5. “Exiles in Madison Square Garden”: Critical Reception and 
Journalistic Narratives of Progressive Rock in /Melody Maker/ Magazine, 
1971–1976
/Chris Anderton (Solent University, UK)/
/
/6. Alternative Before Alternative: The Pre-Punk History of a '90s Genre
/Theo Cateforis (Syracuse University, USA)/
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/7. Never Mind the B…, Here's Three Minutes of Prog: Rethinking Punk's 
Impact on Progressive Rock in Britain During the Late 1970s
/Andy Bennett (Griffith University, Australia)/
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/8. “There's a Crack in the Union Jack.” Questioning National Identity 
in the 1990s: the Britpop Counter-narrative
/Johnny Hopkins (Solent University, UK)/
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/SECTION 3 – Narratives Constructed

9. Compromised Histories: The Impact of Production Pressures on the 
Construction of Historical Narratives in Popular Music Documentaries
/Lauren Istvandity (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia), Sarah 
Baker (Griffith University, Australia), Zelmarie Cantillon (Western 
Sydney University, Australia) and Shane Homan (Monash University, 
Australia)/
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/10. When a History of Gender Representation Meets the Nostalgic 
Storytelling of /Hot Press/ Magazine
/Yvonne Kiely (Independent Scholar, Ireland)/
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/11. Punk Fanzines, Subcultural Consecration, and Hidden Female 
Histories in Early British Punk
/Karen Fournier (University of Michigan, USA)/
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/12. Tales from the Turntables: “Narrating” and “Narrativizing” the 
“First Club DJ”
/Maren Hancock (York University, Canada)/*

Full details of chapters can be found here: 
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/media-narratives-in-popular-music-9781501357275/


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