Categorizing sound : genre and twentieth-century popular music

Categorizing sound : genre and twentieth-century popular music / David Brackett.

"Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people: in other words, how do particular ways of organizing sound become integral parts of whom we perceive ourselves to be and of how we feel connected to some people and disconnected from others? Aft...

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Main Author: Brackett, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland : University of California Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Popular music genres > Social aspects > United States.
Popular music > United States > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: They never even knew
  • Foreign music and the emergence of phonography
  • Forward to the past: race music in the 1920s
  • The newness of old-time music
  • From jazz to pop: swing in the 1940s.

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