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| Title | : | Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music (Clarendon Paperbacks) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.73 (623 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198163053 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
. Peter van der Merwe is at Natal Society Library
SurlyHiker said A lot of information, but more of an academic tome.. A lot of information, but more of an academic tome. A tad difficult to read at times and expects the reader to have a pretty in depth knowledge of music theory.. A Musicological History Of American Music This book examines the influences on the American music of the 20th century from a musicological rather than a sociological perspective. But actually there is a fair bit of historical and cultural background included as well. For me this was a good thing, because I am a music fan rather than a musician and sometimes found all the talk of pendular thirds, eight bar patterns and the diatonic scale going over my head. But even here I found eno. Very informative book Mikhail Lewis This book is great because it traces the origins of many musical techniques and a few genres, includes a great glossary and many examples in notation, and a lot of information about harmony and melody in popular and classical music.Contents (just the top level):Part One. The Historical BackgroundPart Two. The Theoretical FoundationPart Three. The BluesPart Four. Parlour Music and Ragtime
"Will have reprecussions not only on the study of popular music, but on those debates about cultural identity which are centred on blues and jazz.The range of scholarship here is extraordinary and, in its combination of available materials, unprecedented.A major intervention in the study of American popular music, and should be known not only to musicians and musicologists, but to anyone interested in the sociology of American culture."--Journal of American Studies"Exposes many fascinating facets of popular music and provides a clear insight into jazz' formative years."--JazzTimes"Contains a wealth of ingenious speculations.He seems to have an uncanny knack for drawing out musical patterns from an extraordinaryly diverse repertory.Anyone interested in exploring the musical syntax of popular genres would do well to take advantage of the insights presented so cogently here."--American Music"This ground-breaking study examines the split between 'classical'
Analyzing popular music from a musical, rather than a sociological or political viewpoint, this book examines the nineteenth-century split between classical and popular music and surveys all styles of Western popular music to uncover the musical language uniting them.
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