Popular Music Studies: Select I

John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, Peter Wicke, Paul Oliver

Bloomsbury Academic, 1997 - Music - 450 pages

From advertising to zydeco, this volume provides a guide to scholarly literature on the popular music of the world. It covers non-biographical aspects of the field, including genres, the industry, social and cultural contexts, musical practices, geographical locations and theory and method.

Contents

• Cabaret: 21
• Cowboy Songs: 34
• Girl Groups: 44
• Hootenanny and Singalong: 50
• Influences: 71
• Klezmer: 75
• Motown: 81
• Muzak: 88
• Reggae: 94
• THE INDUSTRY: 139
• SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS: 170
• MUSICAL PRACTISES: 241
• Music Analysis and Theory: 245
• LOCATIONS: 275
• Eastern and SouthEastern Europe: 296
• Latin America: 304
• THEORY AND METHOD: 371
• AUTHOR INDEX: 385
• SUBJECT INDEX: 425

About the author

John Shepherd is Chancellor's Professor of music and sociology, and Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at Carleton University, ON. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Popular Music Studies: Select I; Encyclopedia of popular musc of the world
• Editors: John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, Peter Wicke, Paul Oliver
• Compiled by: John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, Peter Wicke, Paul Oliver
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 1997
• Original from: Indiana University
• Digitized: Jun 5, 2009
• ISBN: 0720123445, 9780720123449
• Length: 450 pages
• Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal; Social Science / Popular Culture