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Title:
Banding Together : How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music.
Author:
Lena, Jennifer C.
ISBN:
9781400840458

9781283339841
Publication Information:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 242 pages)
Abstract:
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.
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