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currentmusicology-5377	Johnson, Thomas	David Brackett. 2016. Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Berkeley: University of California Press	2018	9	.pdf	application/pdf	3765	153	43	To grapple with as slippery and cumbersome a topic as popular music catego- ries, the book deftly moves from sharply focused comparative analyses of songs to grand narratives of popular music history in the United States, in- vestigating the ways musical groupings intertwine with their technological, social, and cultural contexts. Brackett’s book is a nuanced and far-reaching addition to recent musicological publications on genre—including works about genre and gender in popular music (Burns 2000), social mediation of genres and identities (Born 2011), genre in twentieth-century art mu- sics (Drott 2013), metal (Smialek 2015), twenty-first century “new music” scenes (Robin 2016), and recent popular music (James 2017a, 2017b).	cache/currentmusicology-5377.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5377.txt