When Genres Collide - (Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music) by Matt Brennan (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A history of the uneasy relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the music press.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>When Genres Collide</i> 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: <i>Down Beat</i> and <i>Rolling Stone</i>. 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?<br/><br/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Based on Brennan's doctoral research, the tone is learned but not turgid. This man has read serious truckloads of music magazines. Helluva job and he's the man to do it.<br/>Jazzwise<br><br>I enjoyed this book by Dr. Matt Brennan. Rich material on genres, authenticity, and the whole sweep of 20th century pop criticism.<br/>Mark Richardson, Executive Editor, Pitchfork<br><br>Matt Brennan looks to the music press of the 1950s and 60s, ... [in doing so] revealing a tangled relationship between jazz and what would become rock.<br/>The Wire<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Matt Brennan</b> is a Chancellor's Fellow of Music at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
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