Music genres. What is a theory of sociocultural classification?
What are genre forms and how are they identified?
Organizations and money
Genre ideals and style
What genres are not
Outline of the book
Three musics, four genres : rap, bluegrass, and bebop jazz. Avant-garde genres
Scene-based genres
Industry-based genres
Traditionalist genres
After the tradition
Conclusion
Music trajectories. Two genre trajectories
Scene-based origins
IST trajectories
On genre trajectories
Inhibiting factors on musical trajectories
Absorption into other musics, other streams
Niche music
The racist organization of musical production
Conclusion
The government-purposed genre. Attributes of government-purposed genres
China
Chile
Nigeria
Serbia
Conclusion
On classification systems. Classification in music
Toward a model of classification systems
On science, markets, and memory
The future of music
In closing.