PT Journal
AU Novakova, V
TI Aesthetics of Singer-Songwriters: To the Issue of Authenticity of Expression and Performance, especially with Respect to the Female Representatives of the Style-Genre Type in Question
SO Musicologica Olomucensia
PY 2018
BP 143
EP 164
VL 28
IS 2
DI 10.5507/mo.2018.026
DE popular music; rock; singer-songwriters; Carole King; authenticity; expression; performance; feminism
AB The study deals with the aesthetics of singer-songwriters, namely the aesthetic category of authenticity. The aim of the text is to introduce a discussion of "authenticity" with regard to the worldwide singer-songwriters movement, especially its top female representatives (namely Carole King from the first phase in the sixties and seventies). The theoretical treatise is complemented by model analyzes of selected musical and extra-musical (textual, dance, etc.) elements that constitute what music critics call "authentic expression" - what they traditionally understand as a key criterion of musical/artistic quality (beauty, value) and on what they eventually build the canon of popular and rock music history.
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