Sounding Out Pop : Analytical Essays in Popular Music
ISBN: 9780472034000 | 0472034006
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ of Michigan Pr
Pub. Date: 6/22/2010
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The nine essays inSounding Out Popwork together to map the myriad styles and genres of the pop-rock universe through detailed case studies that confront the music from a variety of engaging, thought-provoking perspectives---from historical to music-analytic, aesthetic to ethnographic, with several authors drawing liberally from ideas in other disciplines. The bands and artists covered are as vast and varied as the fifty-year history of popular music, from the Coasters and Roy Orbison to Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Beck, Genesis, Tori Amo... MORE
| Preface | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Leiber and Stoller, the Coasters, and the ôDramatic AABAö Form | p. 1 |
| ôOnly the Lonelyö: Roy Orbison's Sweet West Texas Style | p. 18 |
| Ego and Alter Ego: Artistic Interaction between Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn | p. 42 |
| Marvin Gaye as Vocal Composer | p. 63 |
| A Study of Maximally Smooth Voice Leading in the Mid-1970s Music of Genesis | p. 99 |
| ôReggatta de Blancö: Analyzing Style in the Music of the Police | p. 124 |
| Vocal Authority and Listener Engagement: Musical and Narrative Expressive Strategies in the Songs of Female Pop-Rock Artists, 1993-95 | p. 154 |
| Recombinant Style Topics: The Past and Future of Sampling | p. 193 |
| ôI'm Not Here, This Isn't Happeningö: The Vanishing Subject in Radiohead's Kid A | p. 214 |
| Contributors | p. 245 |
| Index | p. 249 |
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Mark Spicer is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His writings have appeared in Contemporary Music Review, Gamut, Music Theory Online, twentieth-century music, and other scholarly journals and essay collections. John Covach is Professor of Music at the University of Rochester and Professor of Theory at the Eastman School of Music. He is the author of the college textbook what's That Sound? An Introduction to Rock and its History and the coeditor of Understanding Rock, American Rock and the Classical Music Tradition, and Traditions, Institutions, and American Popular Music.
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