Stuart Borthwick, Ron Moy

Popular Music Genres (eBook, PDF)

An Introduction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 sociopolitical contexts. Within this interdisciplinary and genre-based focus, readers will gain insights into the relationships between popular music, cultural history, economics, politics, iconography, production techniques, technology, marketing, and musical structure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136733734
• Artikelnr.: 59234486

Autorenporträt

Stuart Borthwick and Ron Moy are both lecturers at Liverpool's John Moores University. For the past ten years, they have devoted themselves to the delivery of a range of undergraduate courses, and now run a degree program in Popular Music Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Indie: the politics of production and distribution
11 Jungle: the breakbeat's revenge
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.