Popular Music Genres: An Introduction

by Stuart Borthwick and Ron Moy

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 socio-political contexts. At the centre of each chapter is a textual analysis of key examples of the genres concerned: soul, psychedelia, progressive rock, reggae, funk, heavy metal, punk rock, rap, synthpop, indie, jungle. Within this interdisciplinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748617442
• ISBN13: 9780748617449
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages