Music Journalism, Counterculture, and the Rock Way of Life in the Writing of Lester Bangs

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https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.25.26306

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Journalism, pop discourses, rock culture, rock writing.

Abstract

This paper offers a presentation of the written work of the North American rock critic Lester Bangs and an analysis of one of the pieces that he published in music magazines, “James Taylor Marked for Death”. From the study of this text, the ideological, structural, discursive and stylistic principles that gave rise to a new genre of creative expression are formulated, which surpasses journalistic genres and hybridizes cultural and aesthetic discourses in what can only be called “rock wrinting”.

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Juan Carlos Fernández Serrato, Universidad de Sevilla, Facultad de Comunicación

Juan Carlos Fernández Serrato is an Associate Professor of Communication and Information Theory, member of the Department of Journalism I at the University of Seville (Spain). He has a PhD in Communication and Culture (University of Seville), a PhD in Theory of Literature and Arts and Comparative Literature (University of Granada) and a degree in Hispanic Philology (UNED). He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Geneva and Austral de Chile. He has been Research Director at the Audiovisual Council of Andalusia and he currently directs the research on Critical Theory of Communication of the COMPOLITICAS Research Group (University of Seville). His publications include: Hacia una teoría del pop (Madrid, Cátedra, 2022) and La mirada de Orfeo: “Entre” poesía e imagen en los iconotextos de Jenaro Talens (Gerardo Diego International Prize for Literary Research, 2015. Valencia, Pre-Textos, 2016).

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Bangs, Lester. Mainlines, Blood Feasts and Bast Taste. A Lester Bangs Reader. Nueva York: Anchor Books, 2003.

 

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DeRogatis, Jim. Lt it Blurt. The Life & Times of Lester Bangs, America’s Greatest Rock Critic. Nueva York: Broadway Books, 2000.

 

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Roszac, Theodor, The Making of a Counterculture. Reflections on Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition. New York: Anchor Books, 1969.

 

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2023-07-18

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Fernández Serrato, J. C. (2023). Music Journalism, Counterculture, and the Rock Way of Life in the Writing of Lester Bangs. EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication, and European Studies, 25, 39–52. https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.25.26306
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