DAVID HAJDU'S NEW GUIDE bears a weighty, Tocquevillian subtitle — Pop Music in America — in step with its aims but out of step with its tone. The extra immediate implication of Jehan's work has not been the human-to-robotic reward of artwo…

^ F. Holt, Style in Standard Music (College of Chicago Press, 2007), ISBN 0226350398 , p. fifty six. Although there are earlier examples of dance music from the classical and romantic durations, like the waltz or the mazurka, the style as …