{"product_id":"banding-together-how-communities-create-genres-in-popular-music-9780691163383","title":"Banding Together  How Communities Create Genres","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and bluegrass to death metal and South Tex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012 \"Banding Together is an essential read for fans of popular music, thanks in no small part to Lena's wealth of music knowledge, as the book draws together the studies of music communities and music genres into a coherent whole.\"--Martin James, Times Literary Supplement \"This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the role of music--all music--in culture. Although Lena's focus is on the rise of 20th-century American popular idioms, the questions she asks are appropriate for and applicable to a number of significant canons... A significant contribution to the literature.\"--Choice \"Sociologists of music, as well as musical practitioners and fans, will find in Banding Together an engaging story about the commonalities shared by a variety of musical genres, despite their inherent stylistic differences. Through its wealth of examples, the book puts flesh on the otherwise counterintuitive contention that artistic creativity is a collective endeavor. Yet it goes beyond this well-established sociological observation to demonstrate how these musical art-worlds share a strikingly unified developmental grammar.\"--Amir Goldberg, American Journal of Sociology \"Lena demonstrates a remarkable scope of knowledge in American popular music. Integrating it with a wide research body in cultural sociology, she delivers a delightful reading for sociologists who are popular music fans. The clear analysis, rich examples and insightful observations should make this book a staple in music sociology and indeed in cultural sociology as a whole.\"--Motti Regev, Sociologica\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403809235287,"sku":"9780691163383","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691163383.jpg?v=1730484612","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/banding-together-how-communities-create-genres-in-popular-music-9780691163383","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}