Categorizing Sound Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music

Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people, particularly how certain ways of organizing sounds becomes integral to how we perceive ourselves and how we feel connected to some people and disconnected from others. Presenting a series of case studies ranging from race music and old-time music of the 1920s through country and R&B of the 1980s, David Brackett explores the processes by which genres are produced. Using in-depth archival research and sophisticated theorizing about how musical categories are defined, Brackett has produced a markedly original work.

ISBN:	9780520291614
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	19 Jul 2016
DEWEY:	781.64
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	376
Weight:	526g
Height:	152mm
Width:	228mm
Spine width:	24mm

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