TY - BOOK AU - Brackett,David TI - Categorizing sound: genre and twentieth-century popular music SN - 9780520248717 (hbk.) : U1 - 781.6'4 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Popular music genres KW - Social aspects KW - United States KW - Popular music KW - History and criticism KW - Music KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - '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 ER -