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Genre in popular music / Fabian Holt.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holt, Fabian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Popular music genres.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The popularity of the motion picture soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou? brought an extraordinary amount of attention to bluegrass, but it also drew its share of criticism from some aficionados who felt the album's inclusion of more modern tracks misrepresented the genre. This soundtrack, these purists argued, wasn't bluegrass, but "roots music," a new and, indeed, more overarching category concocted by journalists and marketers. Why is it that popular music genres like these and others are so passionately contested? And how is it that these genres emerge, coalesce, chang
- Contents:
- Roots and refigurations
- Double session I : Reactions to rock
- A model of genre transformation
- Country music and the Nashville sound
- Jazz and jazz-rock fusion
- Double session II : Urban boundaries
- Jeff Parker and the Chicago jazz scene
- A closer look at Jeff Parker and his music
- Music at American borders.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "The Jeff Parker discography": p. 181-183.
- ISBN:
- 9786613097606
- 9781283097604
- 1283097605
- 9780226350400
- 0226350401
- OCLC:
- 719383032
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