books.google.com - 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...http://books.google.com/books/about/Popular_Music_Genres.html?id=r4bmVbNSnk4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePopular Music Genres