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Popular music genres : an introduction / Stuart Borthwick and Ron Moy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borthwick, Stuart, author.
- Moy, Ron, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2004.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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 diasporan culture
- 7 Synthpop: into the digital age
- 8 Heavy metal: noise for the boys?
- 9 Rap: the word, rhythm and rhyme
- 10 lndie: the politics of production and distribution
- 11 Jungle: the breakbeat's revenge
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-2876-2
- OCLC:
- 1306538336
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