Did Elvis sing from the heart, or was he just acting? Were the Sex Pistols more real than disco? Why do so many musicians base their approach on being authentic, and why do music buffs fall for it every time? By investigating this obsession in the last century through the stories of John Lenn, Kurt Cobain, Jimmie Rodgers, Donna Summer, Leadbelly, Neil Young, Moby, and others, Faking It rethinks what makes popular music work. Along the way, the authors discuss the segregation of music in the South, investigate the predominance of self-absorption in modern pop, reassess the rebellious ridiculousness of rockabilly and disco, and delineate how the quest for authenticity has t only made some music great and some music terrible but also shaped in a fundamental way the development of popular music in our time.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ww Norton & Co
ISBN-10
0393060780
ISBN-13
9780393060782
eBay Product ID (ePID)
103302325
Product Key Features
Author
Yuval Taylor, Hugh Barker
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Music & Dance
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
NY
Content Note
Illustrations, Ports.
Author Biography
Hugh Barker, formerly a musician and songwriter, works in publishing in London. Yuval Taylor, senior editor at Chicago Review Press, is the coauthor of Faking It and the editor of I Was Born a Slave. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.