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Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music
Origins of the Popular Style The Antecedents of TwentiethCentury Popular Music
Author: Peter van der Merwe
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 betwee...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780193161214
ISBN-10: 0193161214
Publication Date: 12/7/1989
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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