Banding Together How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music

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 f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lena, Jennifer C. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2012.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30744295*spi
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  • Cover; Banding Together; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Music Genres; What Is a Theory of Sociocultural Classification?; What Are Genre Forms and How Are They Identified?; Organizations and Money; Genre Ideals and Style; What Genres Are Not; Outline of the Book; Chapter 2: Three Musics, Four Genres: Rap, Bluegrass, and Bebop Jazz; Avant-garde Genres; Scene-based Genres; Industry-based Genres; Traditionalist Genres; After the Tradition; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Music Trajectories; Two Genre Trajectories; Scene-based Origins; IST Trajectories.
  • On Genre TrajectoriesInhibiting Factors on Musical Trajectories; Absorption into Other Musics, Other Streams; Niche Music; The Racist Organization of Musical Production; Conclusion; Chapter 4: The Government-purposed Genre; Attributes of Government-purposed Genres; China; Chile; Nigeria; Serbia; Conclusion; Chapter 5: On Classification Systems; Classification in Music; Toward a Model of Classification Systems; On Science, Markets, and Memory; The Future of Music; In Closing; Notes; References; Index.