Stanfill, Mel.

Rock This Way : Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (241 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rock This Way, or the Shape of Musical Norms -- 1. Judge a Song by Its Cover: Cover Songs between Transformation and Extraction -- 2. Stir It Up: Remix and the Problem of Genre -- 3. Monstrous Mash: Mash-Ups and the Epistemology of Difference -- 4. Fight for Your Right to Parody: Parodies and the Cultural Politics of Kindness -- 5. Feels like the First Time: The Politics and Poetics of Similarity in Soundalikes -- Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Ethical Transformative Musical Works -- Data Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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