none 10.5040/9781501357305.ch-3 Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 2984 132924772 3947539 20231110120732 10.5040 2023-11-10T09:27:01Z 2021-12-13T05:21:10Z 1 Chris Anderton Martin James The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed. It considers the typically linear narratives that are based on simplifications, exaggerations, and omissions and the histories they construct - an approach that leads to totalizing “official” histories that reduce otherwise messy narratives to one-dimensional interpretations of a heroic and celebratory nature. This book questions the basis on which these mediated histories are constructed, highlights other, hidden, histories that have otherwise been neglected, and explores a range of topics including consumerism, the production pressure behind documentaries, punk fanzines, Rolling Stones covers, and more. 1 2022 9781501357305 9781501357275 Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 10.5040/9781501357305 https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781501357305 https://www.bloomsburymusicandsound.com/encyclopedia?docid=b-9781501357305 https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781501357305 https://www.bloomsburymusicandsound.com/encyclopedia?docid=b-9781501357305 https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781501357305 Julia Toppin 2022 53 70 10.5040/9781501357305.ch-3 https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781501357305&tocid=b-9781501357305-chapter3 https://www.bloomsburymusicandsound.com/encyclopedia-chapter?docid=b-9781501357305&tocid=b-9781501357305-chapter3 https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781501357305&tocid=b-9781501357305-chapter3 https://www.bloomsburymusicandsound.com/encyclopedia-chapter?docid=b-9781501357305&tocid=b-9781501357305-chapter3 https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781501357305&tocid=b-9781501357305-chapter3