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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012" Jennifer C. Lena is visiting assistant professor of sociology at Barnard College.
Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and...
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Jennifer C. Lena is associate professor of arts administration and sociology at Columbia University. She is the author of Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music (Princeton). She lives in New York City. Twitter @WITWhat
An in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitan
Two centuries ago, wealthy entrepreneurs founded the American cathedrals of culture-museums,...
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