Charles Fairchild
Biographic Data
| ID | 184948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Fairchild |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Fairchild |
| SIGNATURE | FAIRCHILD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5466-1849 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transcendent myths, mundane objects
The many varied myths of origins, aesthetic transcendence, and greatness that surround popular music continue to proliferate in a variety of forms. One comparatively recent type of institution producing such forms of mythology is the popular music museum. This article uses the familiar idea of the ‘experience economy’’ to examine how three popular music museums produce experiences through objects that, while they are deliberately cast as mundane …
The emergence and historical decay of the mash up
The mash up has descended dramatically from the once dizzy heights of prominence it enjoyed at the turn of the 21st century. For a form that once attracted a great deal of attention from a fair number of music journalists and academics alike, its comparative lack of visibility is striking. However, I argue here that this decay is not due its decreasing relevance, but its absorption into an increasingly expansive, pervasive musical tradition, the …
Understanding the Exhibitionary Characteristics of Popular Music Museums
The literature on the popular music museum has primarily focused on the study of heritage and cultural memory with a secondary focus on tourism. Given the unprecedented expansion of the museum sector worldwide in recent decades, which has produced an increasing number of major museums dedicated to popular music, it is an opportune time to expand this range of analytical concerns. Specifically, the development of popular music museums has not yet …
Crowds, Clouds, and Idols
Research Article| December 01 2015 Crowds, Clouds, and Idols: New Dynamics and Old Agendas in the Music Industry, 1982-2012 Charles Fairchild Charles Fairchild Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2015) 33 (4): 441–476. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.33.4.0441 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Charles Fairchild; Crowds, Clouds, and Idols: …
Invisible Now
Invisible Now: Bob Dylan in the 1960s." Musicology Australia, 35(2), pp. 295–296 Additional informationNotes on contributorsCharles FairchildCharles Fairchild is a Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album (Bloomsbury 2014), Music, Radio and the Public Sphere (Palgrave 2012), and Pop Idols and Pirates (Ashgate 2008), and articles in…
Music and Cyberliberties
Revealing What We Can Never Know
Biographical films about musicians and composers are often caught between the recognition of their subjects as myths and the perceived experience of them as human beings. Many such films resolve the tension between these two cultural formations by creating characters that are both larger than life and simultaneously all too human, carefully resolving any tension between the two. Last Days, incorrectly alleged to be a film biography of Kurt Cobain…
Alan Freed still casts a long shadow
Despite the enormous changes in the music industry in recent years, some things have persisted. Payola, the exchange of money or promotional consideration for radio airplay, has persisted if not increased over the past decade in the United States. This is due to the corresponding persistence of a series of contradictory social relationships between broadcasters, their sponsors and the audiences they seek to construct and maintain through the targ…
Social Solidarity and Constituency Relationships in Community Radio
Community radio stations are, by their very nature, compelled to deal with numerous institutions of governance, be they arms of the state or the market. Given its marginality to mainstream politics and economics, this “third sector” of broadcasting often faces crises that are both the intended and unintended consequences of larger systems of power. These can only be successfully navigated if the character of the relationships between community ra…
Flow amid Flux
The extensive changes affecting television highlight the importance of understanding how these changes might affect programming content. The use of music in evening drama is analyzed here with a view toward interpreting the place of music within several programs in relation to the larger changes affecting the medium. From this analysis, it seems clear that the use of composed music and popular songs is intended to act as a stylistically distinct …
The medium and materials of popular music
Popular music studies has rarely exhibited the kinds of disciplinary coherence found in closely related disciplines mostly due to the field's adoption and adaptation of methodological and theoretical innovations from a variety of disciplines, notably sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, media studies and musicology. However, many commentators continue to seek disciplinary coherence without making any critical aesthetic distinctions between …
Building the Authentic Celebrity
The “Idol” phenomenon is a spectacle founded on the creation, perpetuation, and maintenance of specific kinds of carefully structured consumer relationships. Several of the more successful contestants are gradually formed into recognizable and familiar brands centered on varied and mostly familiar pop star personae intended to form the foundations of the relationships between the various contestants and their supporters. However “Idol” relationsh…
The Currency of Collusion
Deterritorializing radio
The deregulation of commercial radio in the USA has had important consequences in two specific cases: the concentration of ownership and the removal of public interest requirements. A `corporatist' perspective has driven deregulation and has now achieved complete dominance over radio broadcasting in the USA. The most significant consequence of deregulation has been that `local' radio stations are completely insulated from any form of direct commu…
Below the Hamelin Line
CKRZ, a community radio station serving the Six Nations and New Credit Nations in Southwestern Ontario, is examined here as one of a number of strategies of cultural survival for those it serves. By providing local control over and access to communicative resources and important information, CKRZ is an important community institution. In a detailed examination of the evolution and development of CKRZ, through the collection and analysis of a vari…
On the Block
What you want when you want it
Alternative”; music and the politics of cultural autonomy
Building the Authentic Celebrity
The “Idol” phenomenon is a spectacle founded on the creation, perpetuation, and maintenance of specific kinds of carefully structured consumer relationships. Several of the more successful contestants are gradually formed into recognizable and familiar brands centered on varied and mostly familiar pop star personae intended to form the foundations of the relationships between the various contestants and their supporters. However “Idol” relationsh…
Deterritorializing radio
The deregulation of commercial radio in the USA has had important consequences in two specific cases: the concentration of ownership and the removal of public interest requirements. A `corporatist' perspective has driven deregulation and has now achieved complete dominance over radio broadcasting in the USA. The most significant consequence of deregulation has been that `local' radio stations are completely insulated from any form of direct commu…
Alternative”; music and the politics of cultural autonomy
Understanding the Exhibitionary Characteristics of Popular Music Museums
The literature on the popular music museum has primarily focused on the study of heritage and cultural memory with a secondary focus on tourism. Given the unprecedented expansion of the museum sector worldwide in recent decades, which has produced an increasing number of major museums dedicated to popular music, it is an opportune time to expand this range of analytical concerns. Specifically, the development of popular music museums has not yet …
Flow amid Flux
The extensive changes affecting television highlight the importance of understanding how these changes might affect programming content. The use of music in evening drama is analyzed here with a view toward interpreting the place of music within several programs in relation to the larger changes affecting the medium. From this analysis, it seems clear that the use of composed music and popular songs is intended to act as a stylistically distinct …
The medium and materials of popular music
Popular music studies has rarely exhibited the kinds of disciplinary coherence found in closely related disciplines mostly due to the field's adoption and adaptation of methodological and theoretical innovations from a variety of disciplines, notably sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, media studies and musicology. However, many commentators continue to seek disciplinary coherence without making any critical aesthetic distinctions between …
Revealing What We Can Never Know
Biographical films about musicians and composers are often caught between the recognition of their subjects as myths and the perceived experience of them as human beings. Many such films resolve the tension between these two cultural formations by creating characters that are both larger than life and simultaneously all too human, carefully resolving any tension between the two. Last Days, incorrectly alleged to be a film biography of Kurt Cobain…
Alternative”; music and the politics of cultural autonomy
On the Block
What you want when you want it
Below the Hamelin Line
CKRZ, a community radio station serving the Six Nations and New Credit Nations in Southwestern Ontario, is examined here as one of a number of strategies of cultural survival for those it serves. By providing local control over and access to communicative resources and important information, CKRZ is an important community institution. In a detailed examination of the evolution and development of CKRZ, through the collection and analysis of a vari…
Deterritorializing radio
The deregulation of commercial radio in the USA has had important consequences in two specific cases: the concentration of ownership and the removal of public interest requirements. A `corporatist' perspective has driven deregulation and has now achieved complete dominance over radio broadcasting in the USA. The most significant consequence of deregulation has been that `local' radio stations are completely insulated from any form of direct commu…
The Currency of Collusion
Building the Authentic Celebrity
The “Idol” phenomenon is a spectacle founded on the creation, perpetuation, and maintenance of specific kinds of carefully structured consumer relationships. Several of the more successful contestants are gradually formed into recognizable and familiar brands centered on varied and mostly familiar pop star personae intended to form the foundations of the relationships between the various contestants and their supporters. However “Idol” relationsh…
The medium and materials of popular music
Popular music studies has rarely exhibited the kinds of disciplinary coherence found in closely related disciplines mostly due to the field's adoption and adaptation of methodological and theoretical innovations from a variety of disciplines, notably sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, media studies and musicology. However, many commentators continue to seek disciplinary coherence without making any critical aesthetic distinctions between …
Social Solidarity and Constituency Relationships in Community Radio
Community radio stations are, by their very nature, compelled to deal with numerous institutions of governance, be they arms of the state or the market. Given its marginality to mainstream politics and economics, this “third sector” of broadcasting often faces crises that are both the intended and unintended consequences of larger systems of power. These can only be successfully navigated if the character of the relationships between community ra…
Flow amid Flux
The extensive changes affecting television highlight the importance of understanding how these changes might affect programming content. The use of music in evening drama is analyzed here with a view toward interpreting the place of music within several programs in relation to the larger changes affecting the medium. From this analysis, it seems clear that the use of composed music and popular songs is intended to act as a stylistically distinct …
Revealing What We Can Never Know
Biographical films about musicians and composers are often caught between the recognition of their subjects as myths and the perceived experience of them as human beings. Many such films resolve the tension between these two cultural formations by creating characters that are both larger than life and simultaneously all too human, carefully resolving any tension between the two. Last Days, incorrectly alleged to be a film biography of Kurt Cobain…
Alan Freed still casts a long shadow
Despite the enormous changes in the music industry in recent years, some things have persisted. Payola, the exchange of money or promotional consideration for radio airplay, has persisted if not increased over the past decade in the United States. This is due to the corresponding persistence of a series of contradictory social relationships between broadcasters, their sponsors and the audiences they seek to construct and maintain through the targ…
Invisible Now
Invisible Now: Bob Dylan in the 1960s." Musicology Australia, 35(2), pp. 295–296 Additional informationNotes on contributorsCharles FairchildCharles Fairchild is a Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album (Bloomsbury 2014), Music, Radio and the Public Sphere (Palgrave 2012), and Pop Idols and Pirates (Ashgate 2008), and articles in…
Music and Cyberliberties
Crowds, Clouds, and Idols
Research Article| December 01 2015 Crowds, Clouds, and Idols: New Dynamics and Old Agendas in the Music Industry, 1982-2012 Charles Fairchild Charles Fairchild Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2015) 33 (4): 441–476. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.33.4.0441 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Charles Fairchild; Crowds, Clouds, and Idols: …
The emergence and historical decay of the mash up
The mash up has descended dramatically from the once dizzy heights of prominence it enjoyed at the turn of the 21st century. For a form that once attracted a great deal of attention from a fair number of music journalists and academics alike, its comparative lack of visibility is striking. However, I argue here that this decay is not due its decreasing relevance, but its absorption into an increasingly expansive, pervasive musical tradition, the …
Understanding the Exhibitionary Characteristics of Popular Music Museums
The literature on the popular music museum has primarily focused on the study of heritage and cultural memory with a secondary focus on tourism. Given the unprecedented expansion of the museum sector worldwide in recent decades, which has produced an increasing number of major museums dedicated to popular music, it is an opportune time to expand this range of analytical concerns. Specifically, the development of popular music museums has not yet …
Transcendent myths, mundane objects
The many varied myths of origins, aesthetic transcendence, and greatness that surround popular music continue to proliferate in a variety of forms. One comparatively recent type of institution producing such forms of mythology is the popular music museum. This article uses the familiar idea of the ‘experience economy’’ to examine how three popular music museums produce experiences through objects that, while they are deliberately cast as mundane …
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