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 stud...
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2016]
Oakland, California : [2016] |
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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
- The Corny-ness of the folk
- The dictionary of soul
- Crossover dreams: from urban cowboy to the king of pop
- Notes toward a conclusion
- 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
- The corny-ness of the folk
- The dictionary of soul
- Crossover dreams: from Urban cowboy to the King of Pop
- Notes toward a conclusion
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Musical Examples
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: They Never Even Knew
- 2. Foreign Music and the Emergence of Phonography
- 3. Forward to the Past: Race Music in the 1920s
- 4. The Newness of Old-Time Music
- 5. From Jazz to Pop: Swing in the 1940s
- 6. The Corny-ness of the Folk
- 7. The Dictionary of Soul
- 8. Crossover Dreams: From Urban Cowboy to the King of Pop
- 9. Notes Toward a Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index