A Theory Of Musical Genres. Two Applications
Franco Fabbri · 1982
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).