American Popular Music - Softcover

Starr, Larry; Waterman, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199859116 ISBN 13: 9780199859115

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Explore the rich terrain of American popular music with the most complete, colorful, and authoritative introduction of its kind. In the fourth edition of their bestselling text, American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3, Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman provide a unique combination of cultural and social history with the analytical study of musical styles. This new edition traces the development of jazz, blues, country, rock, hip-hop, and other popular genres from their multicultural roots to the digital world of the twenty-first century.

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About this title

About the Author:

Larry Starr is Professor of Music at the University of Washington. He is a respected scholar of American popular music and the music of Ives, Gershwin, and Copland.

Christopher Waterman is Dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. An anthropologist specializing in the music of Africa and the Americas, he is also a bassist who has performed professionally in a wide variety of popular genres.

Review:

"American Popular Music is easily the best-written text of its kind on the market today."--Gregory Reish, Roosevelt University

"Starr and Waterman offer the strongest historical narrative, with excellent examples, comprehensive coverage of styles, and an integrated, chronological approach."--Mary Macklem, University of Central Florida

"American Popular Music is easily the best-written text of its kind on the market today."--Gregory Reish, Roosevelt University

"Starr and Waterman offer the strongest historical narrative, with excellent examples, comprehensive coverage of styles, and an integrated, chronological approach."--Mary Macklem, University of Central Florida

-American Popular Music is easily the best-written text of its kind on the market today.---Gregory Reish, Roosevelt University

-Starr and Waterman offer the strongest historical narrative, with excellent examples, comprehensive coverage of styles, and an integrated, chronological approach.---Mary Macklem, University of Central Florida

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199859116
• ISBN 13: 9780199859115
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 598