Book chapter
Compromised Histories: The Impact of Production Pressures on the Construction of Historical Narratives in Popular Music Documentaries
Media Narratives in Popular Music, pp.163-179
Bloomsbury Academic
2022
Abstract
The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed. It considers the typically linear narratives that are based on simplifications, exaggerations, and omissions and the histories they construct - an approach that leads to totalizing “official” histories that reduce otherwise messy narratives to one-dimensional interpretations of a heroic and celebratory nature. This book questions the basis on which these mediated histories are constructed, highlights other, hidden, histories that have otherwise been neglected, and explores a range of topics including consumerism, the production pressure behind documentaries, punk fanzines, Rolling Stones covers, and more. [Book Synopsis]
Details
- Title
- Compromised Histories: The Impact of Production Pressures on the Construction of Historical Narratives in Popular Music Documentaries
- Authors
- Lauren Istvandity (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesSarah Baker (Author) - Griffith UniversityZelmarie Cantillon (Author) - Western Sydney UniversityShane Homan (Author) - Monash University
- Contributors
- Chris Anderton (Editor)Martin James (Editor)
- Publication details
- Media Narratives in Popular Music, pp.163-179
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- DOI
- 10.5040/9781501357305.ch-9
- ISBN
- 9781501357299; 9781501357282
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Business and Creative Industries; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99663997602621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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