Jason Toynbee
Biographic Data
| ID | 221987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Toynbee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Toynbee |
| SIGNATURE | TOYNBEE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ideology: Towards renewal of a critical concept
In this response to our critics and fellow-travellers we reaffirm our claim that contemporary media studies should reinvent a critical concept of ideology. We do this through addressing some of the problems with older critical conceptions of ideology and suggesting potentially fruitful ways forward through engaging with research traditions that have become neglected or are overlooked in the field. This avowedly inter-disciplinary position draws o…
Motti Regev. 2013. Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity
Motti Regev. 2013. Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity. Cambridge: Polity. 224pp. ISBN 978-0-7456-6173-5 (pbk)
Ideology critique: The challenge for media studies
Taking our bearings from Stuart Hall’s essay from 1982, ‘The rediscovery of “ideology”: return of the repressed in media studies’, we argue in this discussion piece for the need to pick up the tools of ideology critique once again. Quite simply, the contemporary moment where accelerating inequality is masked by blame of the poor and of migrants demands it. The case is made first through a critique of ideological responses to the economic crisis a…
World music at the BBC World Service, 1942-2008: Public diplomacy, cosmopolitanism, contradiction
Music plays an important role in the BBC World Service. This article shows how, across sixty five years, notionally global music has been broadcast as a pragmatic way of reaching audiences beyond Britain. There is a contradiction here. The scheduling of 'world music' undoubtedly represents a cosmopolitan imperative to embrace cultural difference. Yet it is also an instrumental means of framing programmes and appealing to those audiences which are…
The Media and Social Theory
Any division of cultural industry labor-whether local, national, or global-is defined not just by an allocation of tasks and responsibilities but also by the varying working conditions within that system. “Working conditions” does not refer here simply to the degree of comfort or satisfaction one experiences at film and television work (is it too cold or too hot, can I go to the bathroom when I choose, are the rules and expectations clear, are my…
Copyright, the Work and Phonographic Orality in Music
Shaped by a combination of romantic aesthetics and capitalist economics in the 19th century, the musical work was only enshrined in copyright law at the beginning of the 20th. However, even as the distinctiveness of the work was being legally inscribed, there emerged a new form of popular music making based on iteration. The recorded blues depended on continuity with other record-songs rather than the uniqueness of the individual work. Significan…
Going Through the Motions: Popular Music Performance in Journalism and in Academic Discourse
popular music performance raises important questions about music-making as process. these questions are addressed through dealing with a further issue: the difference between music journalism and academic discourse on music. a dialogic structure is adopted. first, in a short paper, tim quirk examines film of the who playing at the isle of wight in 1970. he shows how pete townshend's performance moves through a cycle, from incompetence to the extr…
Apolitical Blues: Report on the IASPM 12th Biennial Conference,McGill University, Montreal, 3–7 July 2003
IASPM conferences are always enjoyable. There is plenty of enthusiasm for music, as well as much skilful delineation of its form and cultural context. IASPM conferences also have a pretty flat structure and, although there is never enough, a relatively high degree of interaction between people from different countries, ethnicities, disciplines, sexualities. Certainly, the academic star system is in evidence, but its worst manifestations are suppr…
Interpreting Popular Music
Policing Bohemia, pinning up grunge: The music press and generic change in British pop and rock
After a decade of relative stability a flurry of closures and launches has changed the face of the British popular music press (see Table 1). This article examines the new structure and its development in three interlocking areas: in music industry organisation, rock and pop genres, and the process of discursive formation in the press itself. On the first of these, I argue that the function of the music press as an 'institutional regulator' (Hirs…
The Media and Social Theory
Any division of cultural industry labor-whether local, national, or global-is defined not just by an allocation of tasks and responsibilities but also by the varying working conditions within that system. “Working conditions” does not refer here simply to the degree of comfort or satisfaction one experiences at film and television work (is it too cold or too hot, can I go to the bathroom when I choose, are the rules and expectations clear, are my…
Policing Bohemia, pinning up grunge: The music press and generic change in British pop and rock
After a decade of relative stability a flurry of closures and launches has changed the face of the British popular music press (see Table 1). This article examines the new structure and its development in three interlocking areas: in music industry organisation, rock and pop genres, and the process of discursive formation in the press itself. On the first of these, I argue that the function of the music press as an 'institutional regulator' (Hirs…
Ideology critique: The challenge for media studies
Taking our bearings from Stuart Hall’s essay from 1982, ‘The rediscovery of “ideology”: return of the repressed in media studies’, we argue in this discussion piece for the need to pick up the tools of ideology critique once again. Quite simply, the contemporary moment where accelerating inequality is masked by blame of the poor and of migrants demands it. The case is made first through a critique of ideological responses to the economic crisis a…
Copyright, the Work and Phonographic Orality in Music
Shaped by a combination of romantic aesthetics and capitalist economics in the 19th century, the musical work was only enshrined in copyright law at the beginning of the 20th. However, even as the distinctiveness of the work was being legally inscribed, there emerged a new form of popular music making based on iteration. The recorded blues depended on continuity with other record-songs rather than the uniqueness of the individual work. Significan…
Ideology: Towards renewal of a critical concept
In this response to our critics and fellow-travellers we reaffirm our claim that contemporary media studies should reinvent a critical concept of ideology. We do this through addressing some of the problems with older critical conceptions of ideology and suggesting potentially fruitful ways forward through engaging with research traditions that have become neglected or are overlooked in the field. This avowedly inter-disciplinary position draws o…
Going Through the Motions: Popular Music Performance in Journalism and in Academic Discourse
popular music performance raises important questions about music-making as process. these questions are addressed through dealing with a further issue: the difference between music journalism and academic discourse on music. a dialogic structure is adopted. first, in a short paper, tim quirk examines film of the who playing at the isle of wight in 1970. he shows how pete townshend's performance moves through a cycle, from incompetence to the extr…
Apolitical Blues: Report on the IASPM 12th Biennial Conference,McGill University, Montreal, 3–7 July 2003
IASPM conferences are always enjoyable. There is plenty of enthusiasm for music, as well as much skilful delineation of its form and cultural context. IASPM conferences also have a pretty flat structure and, although there is never enough, a relatively high degree of interaction between people from different countries, ethnicities, disciplines, sexualities. Certainly, the academic star system is in evidence, but its worst manifestations are suppr…
Policing Bohemia, pinning up grunge: The music press and generic change in British pop and rock
After a decade of relative stability a flurry of closures and launches has changed the face of the British popular music press (see Table 1). This article examines the new structure and its development in three interlocking areas: in music industry organisation, rock and pop genres, and the process of discursive formation in the press itself. On the first of these, I argue that the function of the music press as an 'institutional regulator' (Hirs…
Interpreting Popular Music
Apolitical Blues: Report on the IASPM 12th Biennial Conference,McGill University, Montreal, 3–7 July 2003
IASPM conferences are always enjoyable. There is plenty of enthusiasm for music, as well as much skilful delineation of its form and cultural context. IASPM conferences also have a pretty flat structure and, although there is never enough, a relatively high degree of interaction between people from different countries, ethnicities, disciplines, sexualities. Certainly, the academic star system is in evidence, but its worst manifestations are suppr…
Going Through the Motions: Popular Music Performance in Journalism and in Academic Discourse
popular music performance raises important questions about music-making as process. these questions are addressed through dealing with a further issue: the difference between music journalism and academic discourse on music. a dialogic structure is adopted. first, in a short paper, tim quirk examines film of the who playing at the isle of wight in 1970. he shows how pete townshend's performance moves through a cycle, from incompetence to the extr…
Copyright, the Work and Phonographic Orality in Music
Shaped by a combination of romantic aesthetics and capitalist economics in the 19th century, the musical work was only enshrined in copyright law at the beginning of the 20th. However, even as the distinctiveness of the work was being legally inscribed, there emerged a new form of popular music making based on iteration. The recorded blues depended on continuity with other record-songs rather than the uniqueness of the individual work. Significan…
The Media and Social Theory
Any division of cultural industry labor-whether local, national, or global-is defined not just by an allocation of tasks and responsibilities but also by the varying working conditions within that system. “Working conditions” does not refer here simply to the degree of comfort or satisfaction one experiences at film and television work (is it too cold or too hot, can I go to the bathroom when I choose, are the rules and expectations clear, are my…
World music at the BBC World Service, 1942-2008: Public diplomacy, cosmopolitanism, contradiction
Music plays an important role in the BBC World Service. This article shows how, across sixty five years, notionally global music has been broadcast as a pragmatic way of reaching audiences beyond Britain. There is a contradiction here. The scheduling of 'world music' undoubtedly represents a cosmopolitan imperative to embrace cultural difference. Yet it is also an instrumental means of framing programmes and appealing to those audiences which are…
Ideology critique: The challenge for media studies
Taking our bearings from Stuart Hall’s essay from 1982, ‘The rediscovery of “ideology”: return of the repressed in media studies’, we argue in this discussion piece for the need to pick up the tools of ideology critique once again. Quite simply, the contemporary moment where accelerating inequality is masked by blame of the poor and of migrants demands it. The case is made first through a critique of ideological responses to the economic crisis a…
Motti Regev. 2013. Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity
Motti Regev. 2013. Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity. Cambridge: Polity. 224pp. ISBN 978-0-7456-6173-5 (pbk)
Ideology: Towards renewal of a critical concept
In this response to our critics and fellow-travellers we reaffirm our claim that contemporary media studies should reinvent a critical concept of ideology. We do this through addressing some of the problems with older critical conceptions of ideology and suggesting potentially fruitful ways forward through engaging with research traditions that have become neglected or are overlooked in the field. This avowedly inter-disciplinary position draws o…
Sociology (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Music History and Culture (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)