Performance and Popular Music

Download or read book Performance and Popular Music written by Ian Inglis and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the emergence of rockOCOnOCOroll in the early 1950s, there have been a number of live musical performances that became hugely influential in the way they shaped the subsequent trajectory and development of popular music. Each, in its own way, introduced new styles, confronted existing practices, shifted accepted definitions, and provided templates for others to follow. Performance And Popular Music explores these processes by focusing on some of the specific occasions when such transformations occurred. An international array of scholars reveal that it is through the dynamics of performance OCo and the interaction between performer and audience OCo that patterns of musical change and innovation can best be recognised."