Categorizing Sound: Genre And Twentieth-century Popular Music
by David Brackett /
2016 / English / PDF
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Categorizing Sound
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.
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.
