Date of Award
1-1-2006
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing
Supervisor
Richard Douglas Chin
Rights
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Creative Commons License
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Abstract
A young man returns home to Lavington, a rural British Columbian town, freshly graduated with an Bachelors in English and without any direction in his life. In an effort to guide his life forward he undertakes writing an autobiography told through the filter of popular music. The narrator combines discussions of the sociology of popular music and its many facets and genres (i.e. the love song, the canon, the guitar solo etc) with an "aural mapping," a connecting of songs and albums to various instances, people and experiences in his life. It is through this melding that the protagonist develops a sense of his own identity and is able to create plans for the future and move forward.
Recommended Citation
Tucker, Aaron, "The Genealogy of Taste" (2006). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 7861.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/7861