Categorizing Sound booking

Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people particularly how certain ways of organizing sounds becomes integral to how we perceive ourselves and how we feel connected to some people and disconnected from others Presenting a series of case studies ranging from race music and old time music of the 1920s through country and RB of the 1980s David Brackett explores the processes by which genres are produced Using in depth archival research and sophisticated theorizing about how musical categories are defined Brackett has produced a markedly original work Categorizing Sound Genre and Twentieth Century Popular Musicfound this to be a frustrating slog for my taste there s way too many overly specific examples laudable for sure that ended up reading as overwhelming would have benefited by focusing on central figures and the main argument would still come thru just fine 0520291611 .