Revisiting the Popular in Music History by Derek B. Scott - 9781041107415

Revisiting the Popular in Music HistoryAuthor(s): Derek B. Scott\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781041107415, 978-1041107415\nSynopsis\nThis book brings together a significant part of Derek B. Scotts diverse academic work, showing that the cultural history of music matters not only for the understanding it can bring to the meaning and purpose of music-making, but also because it can play a role in the development of social justice and a democratic culture. Where music history is concerned, Scott argues that we should offer interpretations that question the extent to which critics and historians have prized ethnicity and nationality in artistic works. No branch of the arts furnishes more examples of borrowing, re-using, and appropriating across cultures than music, and this is especially evident today in forms of popular music on all continents around the world. The global and the local are not the oppositional ent.