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Popular Music and Jazz, 1950–Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2015

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The coverage of post-1950 popular music and jazz in the second edition of The Grove Dictionary of American Music (hereafter referred to as the AmeriGrove II) is truly impressive in its range and scope. AmeriGrove II gives substantial space to a variety of styles ranging from rhythm and blues and rock to country and hip hop, a nod not only to the tremendous impact they have had on the making and consumption of U.S. music in recent decades, but also to the explosion in popular music scholarship witnessed in organizations like the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and the popular music study groups of the American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory, and Society for Ethnomusicology. Throughout its many entries, AmeriGrove II showcases just how much the study of recent American popular music has grown since AmeriGrove I appeared nearly thirty years ago.

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Special Reviews Section
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , November 2015 , pp. 505 - 512
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Copyright © The Society for American Music 2015 

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References

1 These omissions refer specifically to AmeriGrove II. However, it should be noted that entries for all these artists can be found in the Oxford Music Online database (which includes AmeriGrove II) as part of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. This is similarly the case for the other omitted artists mentioned in this paragraph.

2 The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz includes a biographical article for Atkins, but there is no entry specifically dedicated to Kasem within Oxford Music Online.

3 The Encyclopedia of Popular Music includes a short entry for Billboard magazine, but there are no entries devoted to Variety or Cashbox within the entirety of the Oxford Music Online database.

4 Wikipedia contributors, “Britney Spears,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney_Spears.

5 Spears, Lynne with Craker, Lorilee, Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2008)Google Scholar.

6 Wikipedia contributors, “Wikipedia: Contributing to Wikipedia,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia.

7 This impressive array of contributors consists of Michael Birenbaum Quintero (Introduction); Jason Stanyek (Brazilian American); Melissa Gonzalez (Central American); Jorge Arevalo Mateus (Colombian American); Mario Rey (Cuban American); Sydney Hutchinson (Dominican American); Lois Wilcken (Haitian American); John Koegel (Mexican American); and Edgardo Díaz Díaz (Puerto Rican). Within this same large entry, Roberto Avant-Mier also provides a useful summary of “Latin Alternative” music.

8 See, for example, “Special Issue: (Per)Form in(g) Rock,” Music Theory Online 17, no. 3 (2011): http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.11.17.3/toc.17.3.html.

9 Williams, Raymond, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976)Google Scholar. See also Bennett, Tony, Grossberg, Lawrence, and Morris, Meaghan, eds., New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005)Google Scholar, for entries that align even more closely with those in the new AmeriGrove.