Lena Banding Together

How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4045-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 258 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Lena, Jennifer C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Chapter 1: Music Genres 1

What Is a Theory of Sociocultural Classification? 4

What Are Genre Forms and How Are They Identified? 8

Organizations and Money 10

Genre Ideals and Style 15

What Genres Are Not 20

Outline of the Book 22

Chapter 2: Three Musics, Four Genres: Rap, Bluegrass, and Bebop Jazz 27

Avant-garde

Genres 28

Scene-based

Genres 33

Industry-based

Genres 41

Traditionalist Genres 46

After the Tradition 52

Conclusion 55

Chapter 3: Music Trajectories 65

Two Genre Trajectories 69

Scene-based

Origins 74

IST Trajectories 76

On Genre Trajectories 84

Inhibiting Factors on Musical Trajectories 86

Absorption into Other Musics, Other Streams 86

Niche Music 91

The Racist Organization of Musical Production 98

Conclusion 109

Chapter 4: The Government-purposed

Genre 117

Attributes of Government-purposed

Genres 119

China 120

Chile 128

Nigeria 132

Serbia 136

Conclusion 139

Chapter 5: On Classification Systems 145

Classification in Music 146

Toward a Model of Classification Systems 156

On Science, Markets, and Memory 160

The Future of Music 164

In Closing 168

Notes 171

References 205

Index 233

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer C. Lena is visiting assistant professor of sociology at Barnard College.