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Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Origins of the Popular Style The Antecedents of TwentiethCentury Popular Music - Clarendon Paperbacks Author:Peter Van Der Merwe 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.