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Title: ORIGINS OF THE POPULAR STYLE
THE ANTECEDENTS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY POPULAR MUSIC
By: Peter Van Der Merwe
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0198163053
ISBN 13: 9780198163053
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 23 July, 1992
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
Pages: 366
Description: This is an analysis of popular music from a musical, as opposed to a sociological, biographical or political point of view. The author surveys Western popular music in all its forms - blues, ragtime, waltzes, marches, music hall, ballads and folk music - and uncovers similarities and common roots.
Synopsis: Here, for the first time, is a book which analyses popular music from a musical, as opposed to a sociological, biographical, or political point of view. Peter van der Merwe has made an extensive survey of Western popular music in all its forms - blues, ragtime, music hall, waltzes, marches, parlour ballads, folk music - uncovering the common musical language which unites these disparate styles. The book examines the split between 'classical' and 'popular' Western music in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, shedding light, in the process, on the 'serious' music of the time. With a wealth of musical illustrations ranging from Strauss waltzes to Mississippi blues and from the Middle Ages to the 1920s, the author lays bare the tangled roots of the popular music of today in a book which is often provocative, always readable, and outstandingly comprehensive in its scope.
Illustrations: numerous music examples
Publication: UK
Imprint: Clarendon Press
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