Bibliograph

Banding together, how communities create genres in popular music, Jennifer C. Lena

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Banding together, how communities create genres in popular music, Jennifer C. Lena

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-231) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Banding together

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

720635042

Responsibility statement

Jennifer C. Lena

Sub title

how communities create genres in popular music

Summary

Covering the grown of twentieth-century American popular music, this work explores the question of why some music styles attain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches

Table Of Contents

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. -- Three Musics, Four Genres: Rap, Bluegrass, and Bebop Jazz. Avant-garde genres ; Scene-based genres ; Industry-based genres ; Traditionalist genres ; After the tradition. -- Music Trajectories. Two genre trajectories ; Scene-based origins ; IST trajectories ; On genre trajectories ; Inhibiting factors on musical trajectories ; Absorption into other musics, other streams ; Niche music ; The racist organization of musical production. -- The Government-Purposed Genre. Attributes of government-purposed genres ; China ; Chile ; Nigeria ; Serbia. -- On Classification Systems. Classification in music ; Toward a model of classification systems ; On science, markets, and memory ; The future of music ; In closing

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