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Genre in Popular Music
Fabian Holt
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Description for Genre in Popular Music
Paperback. Provides understanding as to why we debate music categories, and why those terms are unstable and always shifting. This book examines the impact of rock and roll's explosion in the 1950s and 1960s on country music and jazz, and how the jazz and indie music scenes have intermingled to expand borders of their respective genres. Num Pages: 224 pages, 14 halftones, 6 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 328.
The popularity of the soundtrack to the motion picture "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" brought an extraordinary amount of attention to bluegrass, but it also drew its share of criticism from some aficionados who felt the album's inclusion of more modern tracks misrepresented the genre. This soundtrack, these purists argued, wasn't bluegrass, but "roots music," a new and, indeed, more overarching category concocted by journalists and marketers. Why is it that popular music genres like these and others are so passionately contested? And how is it that these genres emerge, coalesce, change, and die out? "In Genre in Popular Music", ... Read more
The popularity of the soundtrack to the motion picture "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" brought an extraordinary amount of attention to bluegrass, but it also drew its share of criticism from some aficionados who felt the album's inclusion of more modern tracks misrepresented the genre. This soundtrack, these purists argued, wasn't bluegrass, but "roots music," a new and, indeed, more overarching category concocted by journalists and marketers. Why is it that popular music genres like these and others are so passionately contested? And how is it that these genres emerge, coalesce, change, and die out? "In Genre in Popular Music", ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
328g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226350394
SKU
V9780226350394
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About Fabian Holt
Fabian Holt is associate professor of music and performance at the University of Roskilde, Denmark.
Reviews for Genre in Popular Music
"Genre is the hot topic in popular music studies right now, and Fabian Holt's book could not appear at a more critical moment, nor could it respond to that moment more forcefully. Fresh and innovative, Holt brilliantly takes readers across a multisited cultural landscape, gathering interviews from musicians and producers in Nashville and Chicago, radio-station owners in the rural South, ... Read more