Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music (Clarendon Paperbacks)

by PetervanderMerwe (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1992

  $72.40

  This is an analysis of popular music from a musical, as opposed to a sociological, biographical or political point of view. The author surveys Western popular music in all its forms - blues, ragtime, waltzes, marches, music hall, ballads and folk music - and uncovers similarities and common roots.