Musical Genre

Assemblage, Abstraction and Digital Terms

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvMads Krogh

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-08-20
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798765100127

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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).

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.