Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time
| By: | Inglis, Ian, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754640578 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409493549 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Since the emergence of rock'n'roll in the early 1950s, there have been a number of live musical performances that were not only memorable in themselves, but 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 (often disruptive) dynamics of performance