Genre in Popular Music by Fabian Holt PAPERBACK 9780226350394

Genre in Popular MusicAuthor(s): Fabian Holt\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226350394, 978-0226350394\nSynopsis\nThe popularity of the soundtrack to the motion picture \""O Brother, Where Art Thou?\"" brought an extraordinary amount of attention to bluegrass, but it also drew its share of criticism from some aficionados who felt the album's inclusion of more modern tracks misrepresented the genre. This soundtrack, these purists argued, wasn't bluegrass, but \""roots music,\"" a new and, indeed, more overarching category concocted by journalists and marketers. Why is it that popular music genres like these and others are so passionately contested? And how is it that these genres emerge, coalesce, change, and die out? \""In Genre in Popular Music\"", Fabian Holt provides new understanding as to why we debate music categories, and why those terms are unstable and always shifting. To tackle the f.