A Theory Of Musical Genres. Two Applications

Abstract

This paper, delivered at the First International Conference on Popular Music Studies (Amsterdam, 1980), was originally printed in Popular Music Perspectives (ed. D. Horn and P. Tagg; 1981, Goteborg and Exeter: International Association for the Study of Popular Music, p. 52-81). Page turns in the original are marked between braces, e.g. “{52-53}” as the boundary between pages 52 and 53. Please note that Fabbri has considerably expanded the ideas presented below in his book Il suono in cui viviamo (1996, Milan: Feltrinelli) under the headings “Che genere di musica?” (p. 7-32) and “I generi musicali e i loro metalinguaggi” (p. 33-41).

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