Categorizing sound : genre and twentieth-century popular music /
Brackett, David,
Categorizing sound : genre and twentieth-century popular music / David Brackett. - 376 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Categorizing Sound' addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people, particularly how certain ways of organizing sounds becomes integral to how we perceive ourselves and how we feel connected to some people and disconnected from others. Presenting a series of case studies ranging from race music and old-time music of the 1920s through country and R&B of the 1980s, David Brackett explores the processes by which genres are produced.
Specialized.
9780520248717 (hbk.) : £62.95 £22.95
Popular music genres--Social aspects--United States.
Popular music--History and criticism.--United States
Music.
Music.
781.6'4
Categorizing sound : genre and twentieth-century popular music / David Brackett. - 376 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Categorizing Sound' addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people, particularly how certain ways of organizing sounds becomes integral to how we perceive ourselves and how we feel connected to some people and disconnected from others. Presenting a series of case studies ranging from race music and old-time music of the 1920s through country and R&B of the 1980s, David Brackett explores the processes by which genres are produced.
Specialized.
9780520248717 (hbk.) : £62.95 £22.95
Popular music genres--Social aspects--United States.
Popular music--History and criticism.--United States
Music.
Music.
781.6'4