Living Genres in Late Modernity

"Some of the sharpest and most intelligent writing I have read in years, radically enriching my thinking on how popular music works. I have never before read a work on music that so successfully tackles issues I've known at some subconscious level were key but that I've never seen made so explicit."--Will Straw, Professor of Urban Media Studies, McGill University "Combining an encyclopedic knowledge of repertoires with a conversational tone, Charles Kronengold is one of the best writers in music studies these days--and it is no exaggeration to say that. This book is a major reassessment of the role of genre in musical practice and experience."--Eric Drott, Associate Professor of Music Theory, University of Texas at Austin