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By Stan Hawkins. (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series.) Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2002. [xiv, 220 p. ISBN 0-7546-0351-2. $79.95 (hbk.); ISBN 0-7546-0352-0. $29.95. (pbk.).] Music examples, bibliography, index.
Stan Hawkins's book is one of a spate of monographs about popular music either recently published or forthcoming. Many of the authors share the conviction that meaning in music can be approached only by considering the music's context and claim that a work of art can be understood only by taking into account its social, historical, and political circumstances. Simply put, it is impossible to speak of "the music itself," because any analytical ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Settling the Pop Score: Pop Texts and Identity Politics.(Book Review)