"From recent decades' digitization have emerged a wide range of means for mapping tendencies in musical life, identifying patterns in sound or musico-cultural practices, and compiling labels, names, tags, and classes on an unprecedented scale. The resultis an extensive catalogue of musical genre. This challenges scene-based or identificational understandings as these occur, for example, in popular music studies (in concepts such as 'genre world' or 'genre culture'). This book offers new perspectives on musical genre fit for current times but with the potential for also reconsidering historical cases. The changing scale and pace of processes of abstraction is among the major ways in which digitization impacts current conditions of musical life"--
From recent decades' digitization have emerged a myriad of techniques for mapping musical life, identifying patterns in sound or musico-cultural practices, and compiling labels, names, tags, and classes on an unprecedented scale.
Proliferating genre catalogs in the context of digital platforms and the conjunction of genre with notions of, for example, mood and activity are among the consequences, which challenge prevailing scene-based and identificational understandings in musical genre studies. This book answers to this challenge. Centering on the concepts of musico-generic assemblage and abstraction, it offers new perspectives on musical genre fit for current times but with the potential for also reconsidering historical cases.
