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Origins of the Popular Style - The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music (Paperback, Revised)
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Origins of the Popular Style - The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
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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.
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