Fabian Holt Genre In Popular Music (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007) Review by William Echard (Carleton University) As Holt glosses it: “this is a book about the work of genre categories in American popular music” (p. 1). In part the book is a theorization of genre as a site of cultural practice, and in [...]

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Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity Veit Erlmann, ed Oxford: Berg, 2004 The reader of Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity is met first with the image of an ear that graces the cover of the book.  This is not any ear.  Rather, it is an ear cast in white porcelain.  [...]

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