Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music
Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music investigates the enduring tension between what feels genuine and what appears manufactured. Hugh Barker and Yuval Taylor explore authenticity as an important idea in popular music, offering readers a way to think about performance, identity, commerce, and cultural value.
About This Book
Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music explores the concept of authenticity in popular music.
Written by Hugh Barker and Yuval Taylor, the book considers how ideas about what is genuine or contrived shape the way music is understood.
Its subject connects popular music with broader questions of identity, performance, commerce, and cultural value.
The book is suited to readers interested in music, criticism, and the cultural meanings attached to popular songs and artists.
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