Popular Music and Historiography

Authors

  • Charles Hamm Dartmouth College Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.1.1.9.56027

Keywords:

ethnmusicology, music genres, Frankfurt School

Abstract

A study of the proliferation, institutionalization and legitimization of the study of popular music over the past several decades.

Author Biography

  • Charles Hamm, Dartmouth College

    Charles Hamm is Professor emeritus of Music at Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA. He is one of the most prominent scholarly writers about American popular music. His numerous books include Yesterdays: Popular Song in America, Music in the New World, Putting Popular Music in its Place and, a major critical edition of all ofIrving Berlin’s early songs, Irving Berlin: Songs from the Melting Pot: The Formative Years, 1907–1914. Department of Popular Music Dartmouth College Hinman Box 6187 Hanover NH 03755 USA

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Published

2004-02-04

Issue

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Articles

How to Cite

Hamm, C. (2004). Popular Music and Historiography. Popular Music History, 1(1), 9-14. https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.1.1.9.56027