Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s

by Charles Kronengold

Book Overview

Living Genres in Late Modernity reassesses the role of genres in musical practice and experience. Exploring stylistic developments from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, including soul, funk, disco, pop, the nocturne, and the concerto, Charles Kronengold treats genres as unstable constellations of works, people, practices, institutions, technologies, money, conventions, forms, ideas, and multisensory experiences. What these genres share is a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520388771
• ISBN13: 9780520388772
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"