Popular Music Genres: An Introduction
- Author: Borthwick, Stuart
- Author: Moy, Ron
Popular Music Genres: An Introduction
- Author: Borthwick, Stuart
- Author: Moy, Ron
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An accessible introduction to the study of popular music, this book takes a schematic approach to a range of popular music genres, and examines them in terms of their antecedents, histories, visual aesthetics, and sociopolitical contexts. Within this interdisciplinary and genre-based focus, readers will gain insights into the relationships between popular music, cultural history, economics, politics, iconography, production techniques, technology, marketing, and musical structure.
Contents
- Illustrations --
- Acknowledgements --
- Introduction -- 1 Soul: from gospel to groove -- 2 Funk: the breakbeat starts here -- 3 Psychedelia: in my mind's eye -- 4 Progressive rock: breaking the blues' lineage -- 5 Punk rock: artifice or authenticity? -- 6 Reggae: the aesthetic logic of a diaspo
- Glossary --
- Bibliography -- Index.
