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Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 575 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-15076-5
Verlag: Princeton University Press
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.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kunstethnologie, Musikethnologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikpsychologie, Musiksoziologie
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments ix
Chapter 1: Music Genres 1
What Is a Theory of Sociocultural Classification? 4
What Are Genre Forms and How Are They Identified? 8
Organizations and Money 10
Genre Ideals and Style 15
What Genres Are Not 20
Outline of the Book 22
Chapter 2: Three Musics, Four Genres: Rap, Bluegrass, and Bebop Jazz 27
Avant-garde
Genres 28
Scene-based
Genres 33
Industry-based
Genres 41
Traditionalist Genres 46
After the Tradition 52
Conclusion 55
Chapter 3: Music Trajectories 65
Two Genre Trajectories 69
Scene-based
Origins 74
IST Trajectories 76
On Genre Trajectories 84
Inhibiting Factors on Musical Trajectories 86
Absorption into Other Musics, Other Streams 86
Niche Music 91
The Racist Organization of Musical Production 98
Conclusion 109
Chapter 4: The Government-purposed
Genre 117
Attributes of Government-purposed
Genres 119
China 120
Chile 128
Nigeria 132
Serbia 136
Conclusion 139
Chapter 5: On Classification Systems 145
Classification in Music 146
Toward a Model of Classification Systems 156
On Science, Markets, and Memory 160
The Future of Music 164
In Closing 168
Notes 171
References 205
Index 233
