American Popular Music: A Multicultural History.0155062298 American popular music American popular music had a profound effect on music across the world. The country has seen the rise of popular styles that have had a significant influence on global culture, including ragtime, blues, jazz, rock, R&B, doo wop, gospel, soul, funk, heavy metal, punk, disco, house, ; a multicultural history. Appell, Glenn and David Hemphill. Wadsworth Publishing Co. 2006 464 pages $59.95 Paperback ML3477 Appell (jazz studies, Diablo Valley College Diablo Valley College (DVC) is a two-year community college in Pleasant Hill in Contra Costa County, California. DVC is one of three publicly supported two-year community colleges in the Contra Costa Community College District (along with Contra Costa College and Los ) and Hemphill (graduate studies, research, and development, San Francisco State University • • [ ) offer a textbook for popular music, humanities, or cultural studies courses, organized by the musical influences of particular cultural groups--African American, European American, Latin, Native American and Asian--rather than a strict chronological approach. This is followed by a section tracing modern jazz to hip hop. They survey a broad range of styles, from minstrelsy min·strel·sy n. pl. min·strel·sies 1. The art or profession of a minstrel. 2. A troupe of minstrels. 3. Ballads and lyrics sung by minstrels. , blues, hymns, and wind bands to Chicano music, Afro-Caribbean music, bebop bebop or bop Jazz characterized by harmonic complexity, convoluted melodic lines, and frequent shifting of rhythmic accent. In the mid-1940s, a group of musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker, rejected the conventions of , acid jazz, girl groups, folk-rock, the British invasion, R&B, and rock. The text is accompanied by two CDs. Both authors are also professional musicians. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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