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Putting Popular Music in Its Place. By Charles Hamm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 39 pp. - Irving Berlin's Early Songs. Edited by Charles Hamm. Recent Researches in American Music, Volume 20. Music of the United States of America, Volume 2. (Madison: A-R Editions, 1994. Volume I: 1907–1911. 247 + liii pp. Volume II: 1911–1913. 359 pp. Volume III: 1913–1914. 289 pp.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Robynn J. Stilwell
Robynn J. Stilwell
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University of Southampton
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Popular Music , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 1997 , pp. 115 - 119
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Endnotes

1. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. Bennington, Geoff and Massumi, Brian (Minneapolis, 1984).Google Scholar Originally published as La Condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir (Paris, 1979).

2. Brooks, William. 1982. ‘On being tasteless’, Popular Music, 2, 9–18.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Brooks does not argue that we should not have our likes and dislikes, merely that we should not impost our tastes on others by privileging the sorts of music we like.

3. Positing country music as a hybrid merely of black blues and Anglo-American folk music is admittedly a simplistic representation, omitting even such fundamental elements as the long and complex interaction of black and white gospels, but one suspects that scholars from outside the culture would not have had a very sophisticated understanding of a music they did not bother to study (a vicious circle in the making).

4. I would like to thank Bethany Lowe for ‘test-driving’ the first volume.