Putting Popular Music in Its Place

by Charles Hamm

Book Overview

This volume of essays by the distinguished musicologist Charles Hamm focuses on the context of popular music and its interrelationships with other styles and genres, including classical music, the meaning of popular music for audiences, and the institutional appropriation of this music for hegemonic purposes. Specific topics include the use of popular song to rouse anti-slavery sentiment in mid-nineteenth-century America, the reception of such African-American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521471982
• ISBN13: 9780521471985
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"