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Popular music genres : an introduction / Stuart Borthwick and Ron Moy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borthwick, Stuart, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations, portraits
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2004.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "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 socio-political contexts. At the centre of each chapter is a textual analysis of key examples of the genres concerned: soul, psychedelia, progressive rock, reggae, funk, heavy metal, punk rock, rap, synthpop, indie, jungle." [Publisher's description].
- Contents:
- 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 diasporan culture
- 7. Synthpop : into the digital age
- 8. Heavy metal : noise for the boys?
- 9. Rap : the word, rhythm and rhyme
- 10. Indie : the politics of production and distribution
- 11. Jungle : the breakbeat's revenge.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Borthwick, Stuart. Popular music genres.
- ISBN:
- 9781474428767
- 1474428762
- OCLC:
- 1145341424
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3366/j.ctvxcrbm0
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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