Living Politics, Making Music
The Writings of Jan Fairley
Ian Christie author Jan Fairley author edited by Simon Frith author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:26th Oct '16
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- Hardback£145.00(9781472412669)
The late Jan Fairley (1949-2012) was a key figure in making world music a significant topic for popular music studies and an influential contributor to such world music magazines as fRoots and Songlines. This book celebrates her contribution to popular music scholarship by gathering her most important work together in a single place. The result is a richly informed and entertaining volume that will be of interest to all scholars in the field while also serving as an excellent introduction for students interested in popular music as a global phenomenon. Fairley’s work was focused on the problems and possibilities of cross-cultural musical influences, fantasies and flows and on the importance of performing circuits and networks. Her interest in the details of music-making and in the lives of music-makers means that this collection is also an original and illuminating study of music and politics. In drawing on Jan Fairley’s journalism, this volume also offers students a guide to various genres of world music, from Cuban son to flamenco, as well as an insight into the lives of such world music stars as Mercedes Sosa and Silvio RodrÃguez. This is inspiring as well as essential reading.
’... read this book and you’ll understand nueva canción, Cuban son, flamenco, and some steamy Cuban Latin slang much, much better’. Songlines **** ’This is a must-read for Latin Americanists, music researchers, students, activists and music aficionados.’ Popular Music
ISBN: 9781138272446
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
220 pages