The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader Histories and Debates
ISBN: 9780195365931 | 0195365933
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/12/2008
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The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader: Histories and Debates, Second Edition, traces the evolution of diverse streams of American popular music from the 1920s to the present. In this richly textured anthology, well-known scholar David Brackett brings together more than 100 readings from a wide range of sources and by writers who have played an integral part in the development of popular music criticism. Brackett includes articles from mainstream and specialized magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals, as well as interviews and autobiographies of... MORE
| New to this edition | |
| Preface | |
| Before 1950 | |
| Irving Berlin in Tin Pan Alley | |
| Songs from the Melting Pot | |
| The Formative Years, 1907-1914 | |
| Technology, the Dawn of Modern Popular Music, and the ""King of Jazz"" Paul Whiteman and Mary Margaret McBride, ""On Wax"" | |
| Big Band Swing Music: Race and Power in the Music Business | |
| ""Black Music's ... MORE | |
| ""The Dance Band Business: A Study in Black and White | |
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David Brackett is Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Music Research in the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. His publications include the book Interpreting Popular Music (2000) and articles and reviews in Popular Music, JAMS, and American Music. Professor Brackett is also a consulting editor for the new edition of AmeriGrove (OUP).
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