“Authenticity, Performance and other double-edged words” encompasses the last 10 years of the author’s research within the realm of Popular Music studies. A kind of “Greatest Hits album” that includes his most insightful contributions to the field. The essays were written in different times and for different contexts, but the red line is that they all deal with topics that are particularly “critical” within musicological research. Authenticity, Performance, Intertextuality, Otherness, Post-Modernism, Ideology and others… They all are “double-edged words”, that provoked lively discussions within the musicologists’ community, that are constantly revised or updated, that are often abused and in desperate need to be rescued.

You can purchase the book by contacting the International Semiotics Institute (maija.rossi@isisemiotics.fi)