This study is part of the AHRC funded project “A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947-1989”. The research is based upon the data gathered from interviews carried out with thirty geographically and generationally dispersed women about their memories of watching television in Britain between 1947 and 1989. I have used generation and gender as analytical categories, and have paid particular attention to the role of memory work in this type of historical research. This thesis aims to build upon previous work which has investigated the connection between generation and interaction with popular culture, but which has not theorised those relationships (Press, 1991; Moseley, 2002). The shifts and, indeed, continuities in the lives of different generations of British women are considered to gain a sense of the importance of generation in the production of identity. Significant differences arose between generations in terms of reflexivity and around questions of quality, value and taste as generations intersected with feminist and neoliberal cultures at different life stages. What was particularly interesting, however, was that despite the dramatic social change wrought by this post-war period, the narratives of women of different generations were surprisingly similar in terms of their everyday lives. Their memories largely centred around domestic relationships, and the women’s role as mother was often central to these. Following my investigation of the significance of motherhood to women’s production of gendered identity I consider the moments which disrupted that pattern and where women are enabled to conceive of an identity outside their familial role. Talk around pop music programming and desire had generational significance in the production of individual identities, again pointing to the importance of generation as an analytical category.

Orientador: Dorotéa Machado Kerr / Banca: Alberto Tsuyoshi Ikeda / Banca: Leodildo Silveira Campos / Resumo: A música gospel faz parte das novas atitudes e condutas evangélicas geradas na esfera das mudanças culturais e religiosas que marcam a pós-modernidade. No estudo da música cristã contemporânea no Brasil, esta dissertação tem o objetivo de descrever as performances e canções dos cantores gospel e sua interação com os modelos da canção pop das mídias, e de verificar como a cosmovisão religiosa tem estruturado a expansão do neopentecostalismo e do mercado musical evangélico. As teorias do pós-moderno que observam a dinâmica das relações entre religião e cultura fundamentaram a análise do campo evangélico e a área de conhecimento dos estudos culturais auxiliou na compreensão dos processos de apropriação religiosa do repertório pop das mídias. / Abstract: Gospel music is part of the new attitudes and dealings born in the sphere of cultural and religious changes that mark postmodernity. At researching Brazilian contemporary Christian music, we analyze the gospel performers and songs and their interaction with models of mass media pop song, and we also study how religious worldview has been structuring the expansion of New Pentecostalism and its musical business. The theories about postmodernity that comprehend the relations between religion and culture have based our analysis on evangelicalism. The Cultural Studies helped us to understand the religion appropriation processes of media's pop repertoire. / Mestre

Poptimism is a school of contemporary popular music criticism characterized by its rejection of the notion of the “guilty pleasure” and traditions within rock journalism called “rockism.” Through an examination of poptimist writing, particularly Carl Wilson’s “Céline project” (which resulted in a book, Céline Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste) and material on musician Stephin Merritt’s comments at the Experience Music Project Pop Conference in 2006, trends emerge: efforts at combating elitism and promoting populism are belied by practices associated with high levels of cultural capital. These tendencies are examined from three angles. First, following Johan Fornäs, poptimist attitudes toward authenticity and reflexivity are considered. In their treatment of musical texts, poptimists reject rockist notions of authenticity while failing to account for consumers’ need for genuineness. Their grasp of reflexivity is greater when it comes to reception; Wilson’s project, an exercise in self-scrutiny for elitist bias via an attempt to appreciate the music of Céline Dion, shows the significance of reflexivity for poptimism. Second, poptimists’ approach to identity and difference is considered. Commentary on Merritt, who was accused of racism due to his admitted dislike of certain African-American artists and genres, is typical: oversimplified models of hegemony undermine deep concern about identity politics. Poptimists’ advocacy of omnivorous consumption as an anti-elitist strategy is flawed: using intellectual approaches and spurning the middlebrow are practices associated with high cultural capital. This strategy seems to lead to co-optation rather than real change. Third, poptimism’s relationship to value and emotion is analyzed. Poptimists have doubts about value judgments given traditional aesthetics’ hierarchical baggage, yet value judgments are critics’ raison d’être. Poptimism’s rejection of guilty pleasure and Wilson’s “guilty displeasure” concept link aesthetics to affect. Poptimists approach emotion inconsistently, embracing it when convenient but subjecting it to doubt and intellectualization when it seems to support elitism. Like many poptimist strategies, populist ideas motivate this approach, but it emulates hegemonic traditions. / text

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Of the music to question and other sensibility to answer her. The sound doesn't just belong to the music, the music is not only composed of sounds. The life that sounds receives the care historical of the emotional existence, and this experience receives the musical components as indicators of the intertextual reading. The African diáspora offers the rhythm of the pop music that, for your time, she takes charge of being the habitat of the AfroAmerican memory. The sound memory of the diáspora is interpreted by the rhythmic beat of the pop music, an ethnic beat that is causing black reinventions in the musical performances in global contexts. To approach the pop musical expression as phenomenon of reinvention of the black identity, the memory African cultural scored the black identification in the AfroAmerican musical head offices traveled by the rhythmic transformations of the gospel, blues, jazz, swing, rhythm and blues, soul, freejazz, rock, funk, pop and rap. The social rhythm that accompany those gender it is centralized in the freejazz for the development of the research, from where they follow analyses and comments on the process of construction of the pop beat addressed in a social slope of racial protest and in the musical agency of black domain. The ethnic revival of the decade of 1960 is the scenario for the presented musiciansocial dialogues in way to map responsible relationships for the rhythmic development that consolidated the beat of the pop music as an ethnic beat. The reflection around the pop gender renounces academic precepts and formalist of the European musical tradition to present a possibility of musical analysis where the procedure is given by the content to be received from the object. This way the pop music can be questioned before the suffered social context by the agents of your creation. The followed road is updated by those musical agents, that give us elucidation answers if we look for the music as a resulting art of human negotiations. / Surpreendente o desafio de questionar e ter a possibilidade de responder com música. De a música questionar e outra sensibilidade respondêla. O som não pertence apenas à música, a música não é composta somente de sons. A vida que soa recebe o cuidado histórico da existência emocional, e esta experiência recebe os elementos compositivos musicais como indicadores da leitura intertextual. A diáspora africana oferece o ritmo da música pop que, por sua vez, se encarrega de ser o habitat da memória afroamericana. A memória sonora da diáspora é interpretada pelo beat rítmico da música pop, um ethnic beat que está provocando reinvenções negras nas performances musicais em contextos globais. Para abordar a expressão musical pop como fenômeno de reinvenção da identidade negra, a memória cultural africana instrumentalizou a identificação negra nas matrizes musicais afroamericanas percorridas pelas transformações rítmicas do gospel, blues, jazz, swing, rhythm and blues, soul, freejazz, rock, funk, pop e rap. O ritmo social que acompanha esses gêneros é centralizado no freejazz para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa, de onde partem análises e comentários sobre o processo de construção do beat pop direcionado numa vertente social de protesto racial e na agência musical de domínio negro. O revival étnico da década de 1960 é o cenário para as interlocuções músicosociais apresentadas de modo a mapear relações responsáveis pelo desenvolvimento rítmico que consolidou a batida da música pop como um beat étnico. A reflexão em torno do gênero pop renuncia preceitos acadêmicos e formalistas da tradição musical européia para apresentar uma possibilidade de análise musical onde o procedimento é dado pelo conteúdo a ser recebido do objeto. Desse modo a música pop pode ser questionada diante do contexto social sofrido pelos agentes de sua criação. O caminho seguido é atualizado por esses agentes musicais, que nos dão respostas esclarecedoras se olharmos para a música como uma arte resultante de negociações humanas.

This master dissertation is an attempt to find the best way for a young and aspiring music producer or songwriter to start a career within the pop music industry. The aim of the project is to gain knowledge from the process of pitching music to publishers, record labels and artists and to improve that process with the knowledge gained. As an additional method I also invited professionals from the music industry (A&R, artist and producers/writers) to share their views on the topic. The work resulted in several songs and song sketches, but it is important to point out that the audio is not part of the analysis and rather a biproduct of the project. The focus of this dissertation lies on the process of pitching music, building a network and the learning effect only. / I detta arbete ska jag försöka hitta ett bra sätt för en blivande musikproducent eller låtskrivare att starta en karriär inom popmusikindustrin. Syftet med projektet är att utveckla kunskap om hur man pitchar musik till förlag, skivbolag och artister och genom den processen ständigt förbättra arbetsmetoden. Som ytterligare en metod förde jag också samtal med yrkesverksamma från musikbranschen (A&R, artist och producenter/låtskrivare) för att på så sätt få ta del av andra åsikter om ämnet. Arbetet resulterade i flera låtar och sångskisser men det är viktigt att förtydliga att musiken inte är en del av analysen utan snarare en biprodukt av projektet. Uppsatsen fokuserar endast på arbetsprocessen och den kunskap som är kopplad till den.

Le présent travail se veut une analyse des enjeux jalonnant le développement du courant musical appelé « folk du Kansai ». Apparu au milieu des années 1960, ce genre incarne avec vigueur la contestation sociale qui traverse les pays, en proposant notamment des titres anti-guerre comme l’émouvant « Betonamu no sora » [« Le Ciel du Vietnam »] de Takaishi Tomoya ou l’ironique « Jieitai ni hairô » [« Entrons dans les forces d’autodéfense »] de Takada Wataru. Pourtant, la thèse que nous portons désire montrer toute la richesse d’un courant musical qui a jusqu’à aujourd’hui été largement réduit à sa facette engagée. Si la folk du Kansai réclame haut et fort la remise en question d’une société jugée belligérante et structurellement inégalitaire, elle reflète également de profondes interrogations quant à la place de l’art dans le quotidien, au rôle de l’artiste au sein de la société, ainsi qu’au sens donné à une musique dite populaire, pourtant modelée par une industrie en place au Japon depuis plus de 40 ans. A travers la reconstitution du développement de la scène de la folk du Kansai de ses début en 1966 à sa disparition à l’orée des années 1970, ainsi qu’une analyse de son répertoire composé d’une centaine de titres, ce travail s’attache à démontrer comment les artistes du genre ont rendu musicalement et scéniquement concrète une profonde aspiration à une indépendance artistique, source à la fois d’expressions individuelles créatives et de regards citoyens sur le monde. / The present work proposes an analysis of the musical genre called “Kansai Folk”. Born in the mid-1960’s, this musical genre embodies the japanese social movement, expliciting for exemple strong anti-war feelings, as Takaishi Tomoya’s moving “Betonamu no sora” or Takada Wataru’s ironic “Jieitai ni hairô” illustrate it. However, our dissertation aims to show that the Kansai folk was more than political protest put in music. If its artists indeed wanted to firmly question a society judged belligerent and unequal, their work also reflected on other questions such as the place of art in the everyday life, the role of the artists in their society and the meaning of a so-called popular music that has been shaped by an industry existing in Japan since the end of the 1920’s. Throught the reconstitution of the development of the Kansai folk musical scene, from its beginning in 1966 to its disparition in 1970, and an analysis of the hundred of tunes composing its repertoire, this works aims to show how these ambitious artists made real their aspiration toward a scenic independence, used as a musical plateforme to imagine and perform creative self-expressions and citizen’s critical views.