Living Genres in Late Modernity by Charles Kronengold

Living Genres in Late Modernity by Charles Kronengold

Living Genres in Late Modernity rehears the American 1970s through the workings of its musical genres. Exploring stylistic developments from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, including soul, funk, disco, pop, the nocturne, and the concerto, Charles Kronengold treats genres as unstable constellations of works, people, practices, institutions, technologies, money, conventions, forms, ideas, and multisensory experiences. What these genres share is a significant cultural moment: they arrive just after “the sixties” and are haunted by a sense of belatedness, loss, or doubt, even as they embrace narratives of progress or abundance. These genres give us reasons—and means—to examine our culture’s self-understandings. Through close readings and large-scale mappings of cultural and stylistic patterns, the book’s five linked studies reveal how genres help construct personal and cultural identities that are both partial and overlapping, that exist in tension with one another, and that we experience in ebbs and flows.

Charles Kronengold is Assistant Professor of Music at Stanford University and, with Adrian Daub, the author of The James Bond Songs: Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism.

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ISBN 13	9780520388772
ISBN 10	0520388771
Title	Living Genres in Late Modernity
Author	Charles Kronengold
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of California Press
Year published	2022-08-30
Number of pages	354
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