Genre in Popular Music
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: October 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780226350394
Subjects: Contemporary popular music; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; History & Criticism - General; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Music / Popular; Music; Music/Songbooks; Genre (Popular music); History and criticism; Popular music; United States
Description: 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.