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Roots of the Classical: The Popular Origins of Western Music

Peter Van der Merwe

Print publication date: 2004

Print ISBN-13: 9780198166474

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198166474.001.0001

The Popular Style

Chapter:
(p. 426 ) 16 The Popular Style
Source:
Roots of the Classical
Author(s):

Peter van der Merwe

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198166474.003.0017

This chapter, which takes the story up to about 1914, deals first with the late 19th-century vernacular (and its early twentieth-century successor), demonstrating what this ‘light’ music had in common with the ‘serious’ music of the same period. It then proceeds to the blues and early jazz, pointing out its links to the same vernacular.

Keywords:   popular music, light music, blues, jazz

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