Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music

by Peter Van Der Merwe and Der Merwe Van

Book Overview

Analyzing popular music from a musical, rather than a sociological, biographical, or political viewpoint, this book surveys Western popular music in all its forms--blues, ragtime, music hall, waltzes, marches, parlor ballads, folk music--to uncover the common musical language uniting these disparate styles. The author examines the split between "classical" and "popular" music in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and presents a wealth of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0193161214
• ISBN13: 9780193161214
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"