Popular Music Genres : : An Introduction / / Stuart Borthwick, Ron Moy.

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748617456);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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2004
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of 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