Open AccessBook Review: The 100 Greatest Bands of All Times: A Guide to the Legends Who Rocked the World
Author(s) -
Valerie Mittenberg
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.55n4.322
Subject(s) - feeling , identity (music) , aesthetics , sociology , media studies , art , visual arts , psychology , social psychology
Pop music is pervasive. We listen ubiquitously, while driving, socializing, and performing countless tasks. The music is a source to which we turn when feeling sad and alone or happy and celebratory. Pop music is an important topic of inquiry because of the roles it plays in people’s lives and also because it provides continuous mass cultural exploration of identity, society, and contemporary experience.