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Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music

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Cover artist
  
Darren Wall

Language
  
English

Publication date
  
April 5, 2007

Originally published
  
5 April 2007

Page count
  
400

3.7/5
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Country
  
USA

Publisher
  
Faber and Faber

Pages
  
400

Authors
  
Yuval Taylor, Hugh Barker

Media types
  
Paperback, Hardcover

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Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music is a book written in 2007 by Yuval Taylor and Hugh Barker. In this book the authors discuss the quest for authenticity in popular music and the influence that that quest has had in the type of music that is played and listened, in particular a preference for raw, simple, underproduced music as opposed to sophisticated, complex, carefully produced music.

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Reviews

  • Campbell Stevenson (15 April 2007). "So that's why Big Bill had the blues". The Observer. Retrieved 19 February 2011. 
  • "Review: Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music, Hugh Barker & Yuval Taylor". Tuned In To Music. 2007-05-19. Retrieved 19 February 2011. 

    • Among the artists discussed in the book, the most prominent are:

  • Nirvana, Lead Belly, John Lomax
  • Mississippi John Hurt, Jack Owens (blues singer)
  • Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)
  • Elvis Presley
  • The Monkees, The Archies
  • Neil Young
  • Disco, Donna Summer
  • Moby, KLF
  • Paul Simon, Buena Vista Social Club
  • John Lydon, Sid Vicious

    • References

    Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music Wikipedia
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