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Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music

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Management number 237220597 Release Date 2026/07/10 List Price US$8.91 Model Number 237220597
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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. Read more

ISBN10 0520291611
ISBN13 978-0520291614
Edition First Edition
Language English
Publisher University of California Press
Dimensions 5.5 x 0.96 x 8.25 inches
Item Weight 1.15 pounds
Print length 376 pages
Publication date July 19, 2016

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