Musical Genre

Mads Krogh is Associate Professor of Popular Music Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research explores issues of genre, mediation, and practice combining inspiration from cultural sociology, assemblage, affect, and actor-network theory. In recent years, he has been particularly concerned with genre formation and classificatory practices in digital contexts of musical life. He is co-editor of six books, including Music Radio: Building Communities, Mediating Genres (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Methodologies of Affective Experimentation (2022).

• List of Illustrations Preface 1. Introduction 2. Answers to The Question: What Is a Musical Genre?3. Musico-Generic Assemblage(S) 4. Abstraction and/as Dissemination 5. Analytical Explorations: Lines of Abstraction Between Affect and Algorithms 6. Conclusion References Index

Musical Genre: Assemblage, Abstraction, and Digital Terms represents one of the most thorough and sophisticated theorizations of musical genre undertaken to date. The advantage of his theoretical orientation is that it permits a much more dynamic and labile conception of both individual genres and genre as an overarching technology for organizing musical life. His strong case that abstraction is not simply a reductive process, but a productive one is a most important contribution to ongoing debates about genre.