[Ebook PDF] Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On, 5th Edition

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[Ebook PDF] Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On, 5th Edition

ISBN-13: 978-1337560375
ISBN-10: 1337560375

Author: Michael Campbell (Author)

Michael Campbell’s bestselling POPULAR MUSIC IN AMERICA remains the industry standard in breadth of coverage, readability and musical focus. Students follow the evolution of popular music from the mid-19th century to the present with discussions of connections, contrasts and patterns of influence among artists, styles and eras. The new fifth edition offers an in-depth section on 21st century music, helping instructors to connect to their students through a modern lens. Units are clearly defined by style and timeframe, and chapters feature narrowly focused objectives. This edition features a vibrant, richly illustrated, magazine-like design that appeals to visually oriented readers.

PREFACE
POPULAR MUSIC IN AMERICA: THE BEAT GOES ON, FIFTH EDITION,is an introductory survey of popular music in the United States since 1840. In its attention to the kinship among its many musical styles and its coherent account of the evolution of popular music over the past century and a half, the book retains the overall emphasis of previous editions. But this book has also had a thorough makeover—adding an entire unit on the twenty-first century, improving upon past pedagogical features, and incorporating the seamless integration of digital complements to support extensive student learning in the MindTap platform.
New to This Edition:
Textual Enhancements
This new edition aims to increase its comprehensiveness and clarity through an array of digital resources. Although the overall sequence of materials remains much the same as in the previous edition, major content additions were made to the first and last units, both to bring the text up-to-date for the twenty-first-century learner and to more clearly express the underlying musical concepts that are critical for
student understanding. Content edits have focused largely on helping students to make connections between terms that are defined early on, with each unit building upon concepts introduced in previous chapters.
The opening unit provides a thorough definition of popular music, and introduces the elements of popular music using Chuck Berry’s “Maybellene” as a central reference point. The balance of the text—nineteen chronological units—maps an historical journey that begins with a survey of its diverse roots and an account of the emergence of a distinctively American popular music in the middle of the nineteenth century. The journey ends in the twenty-first century, bringing the story full circle and helping students to understand how musical precedents set in the past continue to influence and impact popular music today.
New to This Edition:
Pedagogical Features
What is possibly even more evident than the textual changes in this edition are the pedagogical ones. This version of the text recognizes that along with the emergence of a technological platform such as MindTap, students now have the capability to hear, comprehend, and interact with musical concepts, rather than just read about and memorize them. Hence, two main objectives of this new edition are to help students become more active, mindful, and aware listeners and to leverage that awareness into an understanding of musical style. Naturally, the paramount goal for students using this text has always been the application of the musical knowledge they have gained throughout the course to the music that they encounter outside of the course. This edition of Popular Music in America has, through the inclusion of
elements on MindTap (such as audio quizzing and audio flashcards), taken exceptional care to achieve that goal.
This course will encourage students to connect musical terms to the sounds that they represent and vice versa.
Moreover, the digital enhancements of this text now push students towards the use of one or two songs as a proxy for a much larger group of songs defining a particular musical style. After taking this course, students should be able to recognize the distinctive features of various musical styles and use this knowledge to distinguish and classify the tracks they hear on an everyday basis; a gift they can tote with them for the rest of their lives.