{"product_id":"the-persistence-of-sentiment-display-and-feeling-in-popular-music-of-the-1970s-paperback","title":"The Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMitchell Morris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music? Why do certain performers have such emotional power, even though their music is considered vulgar or second rate? In \u003ci\u003eThe Persistence of Sentiment\u003c\/i\u003e, Mitchell Morris gives a critical account of a group of American popular music performers who have dedicated fan bases and considerable commercial success despite the critical disdain they have endured. Morris examines the specific musical features of some exemplary pop songs and draws attention to the social contexts that contributed to their popularity as well as their dismissal. These artists were all members of more or less disadvantaged social categories: members of racial or sexual minorities, victims of class and gender prejudices, advocates of populations excluded from the mainstream. The complicated commercial world of pop music in the 1970s allowed the greater promulgation of musical styles and idioms that spoke to and for exactly those stigmatized audiences. In more recent years, beginning with the \"Seventies Revival\" of the early 1990s, additional perspectives and layers of interpretation have allowed not only a deeper understanding of these songs' function than when they were first popular, but also an appreciation of how their significance has shifted for American listeners in the succeeding three decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho can resist the self-indulgent pleasures of Barry White's Love Theme,\" Cher's \"Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves,\" or the Carpenters' \"Rainy Days and Mondays\"? In richly evocative prose, Mitchell Morris explores the enduring affective force of the opulent and excessive 1970s sonic palette and its context of television shows, movies, popular literature, and later nostalgic-ironic revivals. Engaging critical issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality, this groundbreaking and intrepid study of pure pop speaks to cultural historians and theorists as well as music scholars and fans.\" --Judith A. Peraino, author of \u003ci\u003eListening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Immensely learned but full of demotic wisdom, \u003ci\u003eThe Persistence of Sentiment\u003c\/i\u003e immediately takes its place in the fistful of the essential books of popular music studies.\"--Robert Walser, author of \u003ci\u003eRunning With the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMitchell Morris\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 29, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782370361632,"sku":"9780520275997","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/30cdf05310f5bb9fe03ddb80dc85c58a.webp?v=1780569050","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-persistence-of-sentiment-display-and-feeling-in-popular-music-of-the-1970s-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}