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Analyzing popular music

Author: Allan F Moore
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Each of these essays, written by the leading writers on popular music, is analytical in some sense, but none of them treats analysis as an end in itself. The book represents a wide range of genres (rock, dance, TV soundtracks, country, pop, soul, easy listening, Turkish Arabesk) and deals with issues as broad as methodology, modernism, postmodernism, Marxism and communication. It aims to encourage listeners to think  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Allan F Moore
ISBN: 052177120X 9780521771207
OCLC Number: 49626566
Description: ix, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Popular music analysis : ten apothegms and four instances / Rob Walser --
From lyric to anti-lyric : analyzing the words in pop song / Dai Griffiths --
The sound is "out there" : score, sound design, and exoticism in The X-files / Robynn J. Stilwell --
Feel the beat come down : house music as rhetoric / Stan Hawkins --
The determining role of performance in the articulation of meaning : the case of "Try a little tenderness" / Rob Bowman --
Marxist music analysis without Adorno : popular music and urban geography / Adam Krims --
Jethro Tull and the case for modernism in mass culture / Allan F. Moore --
Pangs of history in late 1970s rock / John Covach --
Is anybody listening? / Chris Kennett --
Talk and text : popular music and ethnomusicology / Martin Stokes.
Responsibility: edited by Allan F. Moore.
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Abstract:

Each of these essays, written by the leading writers on popular music, is analytical in some sense, but none of them treats analysis as an end in itself. The book represents a wide range of genres (rock, dance, TV soundtracks, country, pop, soul, easy listening, Turkish Arabesk) and deals with issues as broad as methodology, modernism, postmodernism, Marxism and communication. It aims to encourage listeners to think more seriously about the 'social' consequences of the music they spend time with and is the first collection of essays to incorporate contextualisation in this way.

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