Popular Music: The Key Concepts

POPULAR MUSIC THE KEY CONCEPTS

Popular Music: The Key Concepts presents a comprehensive A—Z glossary of the main terms and concepts used in the study of popular music. The book includes definitions of: • key musical genres, from bhangra to punk rock • musical subcultures, from hippies to goths • methodologies, from Marxism to postmodernism • musicological terms, from harmony to sampling •musical phenomena, from girl groups to concept albums. Each entry includes suggestions for further reading and is crossreferenced with related concepts. Roy Shuker is Associate Professor in Media Studies at Massey University, New Zealand. He is the author of Understanding Popular Music (1994), also published by Routledge.

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POPULARMUSIC
The Key Concepts

Roy Shuker

London and New York

First published, as Key Concpts in Popular Music, 1998 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 This edition first published 2002 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor &Francis e-Library, 2003. © 1998, 2002 Roy Shuker All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in...