Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Book Details
Author(s)Peter van der Merwe
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN / ASIN0198163053
ISBN-139780198163053
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Sales Rank1,546,856
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Analyzing popular music from a musical, rather than a sociological or political viewpoint, this book examines the nineteenth-century split between classical and popular music and surveys all styles of Western popular music to uncover the musical language uniting them.
