Review of George Lipsitz. 2007. Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
What popular music can teach us about certain issues- such as ethnic discrimination and the social constructedness of racial categories- is the subject in George Lipsitz’s Footsteps in the Dark: The hidden Histories of Popular Music, a book in which Lipsitz calls for “reading popular music as histo...
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doaj-8b84c88c72da4af097bf3c344cc74cf22020-11-25T03:36:58ZengColumbia University LibrariesCurrent Musicology0011-37352008-09-018610.7916/cm.v0i86.5147Review of George Lipsitz. 2007. Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota PressMark Burford What popular music can teach us about certain issues- such as ethnic discrimination and the social constructedness of racial categories- is the subject in George Lipsitz’s Footsteps in the Dark: The hidden Histories of Popular Music, a book in which Lipsitz calls for “reading popular music as history and interpreting history though popular music”. Addressing a rich counterpoint of musical cultures and sociopolitical questions with the authors characteristic candor, commitment and acuity, Footsteps in the Dark is a volume few scholars other than Lipsitz wuold have been able, or willing to write. Footsteps in the Dark adds to a corpus that has firmly established Lipsitz as one of the seminal and most widely influential scholars in the fields and subfields of cultural studies. https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5147 |
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What popular music can teach us about certain issues- such as ethnic discrimination and the social constructedness of racial categories- is the subject in George Lipsitz’s Footsteps in the Dark: The hidden Histories of Popular Music, a book in which Lipsitz calls for “reading popular music as history and interpreting history though popular music”. Addressing a rich counterpoint of musical cultures and sociopolitical questions with the authors characteristic candor, commitment and acuity, Footsteps in the Dark is a volume few scholars other than Lipsitz wuold have been able, or willing to write. Footsteps in the Dark adds to a corpus that has firmly established Lipsitz as one of the seminal and most widely influential scholars in the fields and subfields of cultural studies.
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