What is it about?
A history of popular music in North America from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries that looks a reception and consider a variety of critical approaches.
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Why is it important?
This chapter helps students and scholars think about different methods of discussing popular music.
Perspectives
As I mention in the article, the term popular is itself a subject of some difference among critics and scholars. This article offers several ways to consider that term in the context of popular music's history and reception, demotic as well as scholarly, in North America.
Dr Marco A Katz
MacEwan University
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This page is a summary of: Popular Music Genres, March 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/9781118883341.ch8.
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