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Banding together : how communities create genres in popular music / / Jennifer C. Lena



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Autore: Lena Jennifer C Visualizza persona
Titolo: Banding together : how communities create genres in popular music / / Jennifer C. Lena Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 pages)
Disciplina: 781.64
Soggetto topico: Popular music - Social aspects
Popular music genres
Soggetto non controllato: American music
American pop music
American popular music
Chile
China
Nigeria
Serbia
bebop jazz
bluegrass music
bluegrass
classification systems
contemporary music
evolution
genre forms
government-purposed genre
industry-based genres
music styles
musical genres
musical styles
musical taste
peer culture
personal taste
polka
popular music
power
rap music
scene-based genre
socialization
traditionalist
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Music Genres -- Chapter 2. Three Musics, Four Genres: Rap, Bluegrass, and Bebop Jazz -- Chapter 3. Music Trajectories -- Chapter 4. The Government-purposed Genre -- Chapter 5. On Classification Systems -- Notes -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and bluegrass to death metal and South Texas polka, and including several created outside the United States--Jennifer Lena uncovers the shared grammar that allows us to understand the cultural language and evolution of popular music. What are the common economic, organizational, ideological, and aesthetic traits among contemporary genres? Do genres follow patterns in their development? Lena discovers four dominant forms--Avant-garde, Scene-based, Industry-based, and Traditionalist--and two dominant trajectories that describe how American pop music genres develop. Outside the United States there exists a fifth form: the Government-purposed genre, which she examines in the music of China, Serbia, Nigeria, and Chile. Offering a rare analysis of how music communities operate, she looks at the shared obstacles and opportunities creative people face and reveals the ways in which people collaborate around ideas, artworks, individuals, and organizations that support their work.
Titolo autorizzato: Banding together  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-33984-6
9786613339843
1-4008-4045-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781576203321
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