Made In The Low Countries Studies In Popular Music | Music

Made in the Low Countries: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history sociology and musicology of twentieth and twenty-first century popular music of the Dutch-speaking region comprising the Netherlands and Flanders as a region of federal Belgium. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars and publicists in this field and covers the major issues genres and contexts of popular music. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the issue or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to this transnational region. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music made in the region followed by essays that are organized into four thematic sections: I: Framing and Facilitating; II: Creation and Curation; III: Close Encounters; IV: Changes and Choices. |Made in the Low Countries Studies in Popular Music | Music