Popular Music Genres: An Introduction

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, marketing, and musical structure.

Author: Stuart Borthwick,Ron Moy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/09/2004
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.36w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780415973687

About the Author

Stuart Borthwick and Ron Moy are both lecturers at Liverpool's John Moores University. For the past ten years, they have devoted themselves to the delivery of a range of undergraduate courses, and now run a degree program in Popular Music Studies.