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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jennifer C Lena |
ISBN: | 9780691150765 0691150761 |
OCLC Number: | 720635042 |
Awards: | Short-listed for "Choice"'s "Outstanding Academic Titles" 2012 2012 |
Description: | xii, 242 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Music Genres. What is a theory of sociocultural classification? ; What are genre forms and how are they identified? ; Organizations and money ; Genre ideals and style ; What genres are not. -- Three Musics, Four Genres: Rap, Bluegrass, and Bebop Jazz. Avant-garde genres ; Scene-based genres ; Industry-based genres ; Traditionalist genres ; After the tradition. -- Music Trajectories. Two genre trajectories ; Scene-based origins ; IST trajectories ; On genre trajectories ; Inhibiting factors on musical trajectories ; Absorption into other musics, other streams ; Niche music ; The racist organization of musical production. -- The Government-Purposed Genre. Attributes of government-purposed genres ; China ; Chile ; Nigeria ; Serbia. -- On Classification Systems. Classification in music ; Toward a model of classification systems ; On science, markets, and memory ; The future of music ; In closing. |
Responsibility: | Jennifer C. Lena. |
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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012 "Banding Together is an essential read for fans of popular music, thanks in no small part to Lena's wealth of music knowledge, as the book draws together the studies of music communities and music genres into a coherent whole."--Martin James, Times Literary Supplement "This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the role of music--all music--in culture. Although Lena's focus is on the rise of 20th-century American popular idioms, the questions she asks are appropriate for and applicable to a number of significant canons... A significant contribution to the literature."--Choice "Sociologists of music, as well as musical practitioners and fans, will find in Banding Together an engaging story about the commonalities shared by a variety of musical genres, despite their inherent stylistic differences. Through its wealth of examples, the book puts flesh on the otherwise counterintuitive contention that artistic creativity is a collective endeavor. Yet it goes beyond this well-established sociological observation to demonstrate how these musical art-worlds share a strikingly unified developmental grammar."--Amir Goldberg, American Journal of Sociology "Lena demonstrates a remarkable scope of knowledge in American popular music. Integrating it with a wide research body in cultural sociology, she delivers a delightful reading for sociologists who are popular music fans. The clear analysis, rich examples and insightful observations should make this book a staple in music sociology and indeed in cultural sociology as a whole."--Motti Regev, Sociologica Read more...


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- Popular music -- Social aspects.
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