When Genres Collide - Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle between Jazz and Rock

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.>

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• Authors: Matt Brennan, Matt (University of Edinburgh Brennan, Matt (University of Glasgow Brennan, Matthew Thomas Brennan, Professor Matt (University of Glasgow Brennan
• Assisted by: Matt Brennan (Editor), Matthew Thomas Brennan (Editor), Simon Frith (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781501319020
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-1902-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Resp; Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music; Alternate Takes: Critical Resp; Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Jazz, Rock, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Theory of music & musicology, Pop Music, Popular Music, Theory of music and musicology