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Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate Paperback - 2004

by Christopher J. Washburne (Editor); Maiken Derno (Editor)


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Why are some popular musical forms and performers universally reviled by critics and ignored by scholars-despite enjoying large-scale popularity? How has the notion of what makes "good" or "bad" music changed over the years-and what does this tell us about the writers who have assigned these tags to different musical genres? Many composers that are today part of the classical "canon" were greeted initially by bad reviews. Similarly, jazz, country, and pop musics were all once rejected as "bad" by the academy that now has courses on these and many other types of music. This book addresses why this is so through a series of essays on different musical forms and performers. It looks at alternate ways of judging musical performance beyond the critical/academic nexus, and suggests new paths to follow in understanding what makes some music "popular" even if it is judged to be "bad." For anyone who has ever secretly enjoyed ABBA, Kenny G, or disco, Bad Music will be a guilty pleasure!

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Bad music is everywhere!

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  • Title Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate
  • Author Christopher J. Washburne (Editor); Maiken Derno (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition U.S. Edition
  • Pages 390
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A.
  • Date September 23, 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780415943666 / 0415943663
  • Weight 1.59 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.85 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.16 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Music - Philosophy and aesthetics, Music - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004016591
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.17

About the author

Chris Washburne is an Assistant Professor in the Music Department at Columbia University. He is also a trombonist who has played with major bands led by Tito Puente and Eddie Palmieri, and leads his own Latin-jazz group.
Maiken Derno holds a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Dept of Comparative Literature at the U of Copenhagen, and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia U from 1997-98. She also serves as an editor for Brondum Art Publishers, Copenhagen. They reside in New York City.

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