Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
When Genres Collide: Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle Between Jazz and Rock

When Genres Collide: Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle Between Jazz and Rock

Brennan, Matt
Brennan, Matt
Frith, Simon

Hardcover

Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music

JazzPop/RockMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1501319027
ISBN13: 9781501319020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 23 2017
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Winner of the IASPM Canada Book Prize 2019

Honorable Mention for PROSE Award for Excellence in Music and the Performing Arts 2018

When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. Writing in 1955, Duke Ellington argued that the new music called rock 'n' roll is the most raucous form of jazz, beyond a doubt. So why did jazz and rock subsequently become treated as separate genres?

The rift between jazz and rock (and jazz and rock scholarship) is based on a set of received assumptions about their fundamental differences, but there are other ways popular music history could have been written. By offering a fresh examination of key historical moments when the trajectories and meanings of jazz and rock intersected, overlapped, or collided, it reveals how music critics constructed an ideological divide between jazz and rock that would be replicated in American musical discourse for decades to follow.

Recipient of and Honorable Mention in the PROSE Award, Music & the Performing Arts 2018.

Also in

Jazz

View All