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BANDING TOGETHER: HOW COMMUNITIES CREATE GENRES IN POPULAR
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ICS0001
ISBN:
9780691163383
Authors:
LENA, J.
Publishers:
MISCELLANEOUS
Price:
$7,760.00JMD
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This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 20 July, 2022.
Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and bluegrass to death metal and South Texas polka, and including several created outside the United States--Jennifer Lena uncovers the shared grammar that allows us to understand the cultural language and evolution of popular music. What are the common economic, organizational, ideological, and aesthetic traits among contemporary genres? Do genres follow patterns in their development? Lena discovers four dominant forms--Avant-garde, Scene-based, Industry-based, and Traditionalist--and two dominant trajectories that describe how American pop music genres develop. Outside the United States there exists a fifth form: the Government-purposed genre, which she examines in the music of China..
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