This refreshingly current music appreciation text provides a scholarly examination of popular music's roots and history. The organization and the context of the survey reflect its introductory intent and aids the student in gaining an increased awareness of the heritage of popular music: to appreciate its diversity; to perceive the underlying kinship of its many styles; to sense its evolutionary momentum.
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This refreshingly current music appreciation text provides a scholarly examination of popular music's roots and history. The organization and the context of the survey reflect its introductory intent and aids the student in gaining an increased awareness of the heritage of popular music: to appreciate its diversity; to perceive the underlying kinship of its many styles; to sense its evolutionary momentum.
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Good. No Jacket. Underlining in text, highlighting. An Introduction to Popular Music in America, 1840 to Today. A survey of the development of popular music from the 19th century to the present, this text combines a listening approach to music appreciation with a study of the history of American music, and the influences upon it. It is accompanied by a set of compact discs, a set of cassettes, and a demonstration cassette, all available separately. After a brief definition of American popular music, the author discusses the essential elements of music: rhythm, melody, harmony, texture and form, including an examination of both instrumentation and performing style. The book is divided into three overlapping eras, each marked by a revolution in sound, style or substance, Throughout his examination of these emerging styles, Campbell considers the music which influenced each revolution: traditional folk and blues music in the late 1800s; jazz and Latin music in the early 1900s; and African and country music from the 1950s.
