Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-century Popular Music

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Clarendon Press, 1989 - 352 páginas
"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."--Publisher's description.

Índice

Europe and the Near East
9
EUROPE
15
BRITISH FOLK MUSIC
21
Africa
27
North America
40
THE BLACKS
52
VOCAL MUSIC
68
59
86
AFROAMERICAN RHYTHM
156
British Origins of the Blues
171
FRANKIE AND OTHERS
184
Blues Harmony
198
MORE ABOUT PRIMITIVE HARMONY
205
THE PARLOUR MODES
223
PARLOUR HARMONY
243
PARLOUR RHYTHM
267

10
93
MODALITY
101
12
107
The Uniqueness of the Blues
115
THE TALKING BLUES
146
RAGTIME
277
Some Final Reflections
287
Works Cited
306
Glossary
319
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