Popular Music Genres: An Introduction

by Ron Moy and Stuar Borthwick

An accessible introduction to the study of popular music, this book takes a schematic approach to a range of popular music genres, and examines them in terms of their antecedents, histories, visual aesthetics, and sociopolitical contexts. Within this interdisciplinary and genre-based focus, readers will gain insights into the relationships between popular music, cultural history, economics, politics, iconography, production techniques, technology,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415973686
• ISBN13: 9780415973687
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"