The popularity of the motion picture soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou?
brought an extraordinary
amount of attention to bluegrass, but it also drew its share of
criticism from some aficionados who felt the album’s inclusion of more
modern tracks misrepresented the genre. This soundtrack, these purists
argued, wasn’t bluegrass, but “roots music,” a new and, indeed, more
overarching category concocted by journalists and marketers. Why is it
that popular music genres like these and others are so passionately
contested? And how is it that these genres emerge, coalesce, change, and
die out?
In Genre in Popular Music,
Fabian Holt provides new
understanding as to why we debate music categories, and why those terms
are unstable and always shifting. To tackle the full complexity of
genres in popular music, Holt embarks on a wide-ranging and ambitious
collection of case studies. Here he examines not only the different
reactions to O Brother,
but also the impact of rock
and roll’s explosion in the 1950s and 1960s on country music and jazz,
and how the jazz and indie music scenes in Chicago have intermingled to
expand the borders of their respective genres. Throughout, Holt finds
that genres are an integral part of musical culture—fundamental both to
musical practice and experience and to the social organization of
musical life.
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