Analysing Popular Music

Analysing Popular Music
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Publisher : SAGE
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9781446241349
ISBN-13 : 1446241343
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Analysing Popular Music by : David Machin

Download or read book Analysing Popular Music written by David Machin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. Like language these elements can be used to communicate complex cultural ideas, values, concepts and identities. Analysing Popular Music is a lively look at the semiotic resources found in the sounds, visuals and words that comprise the ′code book′ of popular music. It explains exactly how popular music comes to mean so much. Packed with examples, exercises and a glossary, this book provides the reader with the knowledge and skills they need to carry out their own analyses of songs, soundtracks, lyrics and album covers. Written for students with no prior musical knowledge, Analysing Popular Music is the perfect toolkit for students in sociology, media and communication studies to analyse, understand - and celebrate - popular music.

Analyzing Popular Music

Analyzing Popular Music
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9781139435345
ISBN-13 : 1139435345
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Analyzing Popular Music by : Allan F. Moore

Download or read book Analyzing Popular Music written by Allan F. Moore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we know music? We perform it, we compose it, we sing it in the shower, we cook, sleep and dance to it. Eventually we think and write about it. This book represents the culmination of such shared processes. Each of these essays, written by leading writers on popular music, is analytical in some sense, but none of them treats analysis as an end in itself. The books presents 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 such essays to incorporate contextualisation in this way.

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : 9781134830855
ISBN-13 : 1134830858
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis by : Ciro Scotto

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis written by Ciro Scotto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the scope of analytical approaches for popular music by incorporating methods developed for analyzing contemporary art music. This study endeavors to create a new analytical paradigm for examining popular music from the perspective of developments in contemporary art music. "Expanded approaches" for popular music analysis is broadly defined as as exploring the pitch-class structures, form, timbre, rhythm, or aesthetics of various forms of popular music in a conceptual space not limited to the domain of common practice tonality but broadened to include any applicable compositional, analytical, or theoretical concept that illuminates the music. The essays in this collection investigate a variety of analytical, theoretical, historical, and aesthetic commonalities popular music shares with 20th and 21st century art music. From rock and pop to hip hop and rap, dance and electronica, from the 1930s to present day, this companion explores these connections in five parts: Establishing and Expanding Analytical Frameworks Technology and Timbre Rhythm, Pitch, and Harmony Form and Structure Critical Frameworks: Analytical, Formal, Structural, and Political With contributions by established scholars and promising emerging scholars in music theory and historical musicology from North America, Europe, and Australia, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches offers nuanced and detailed perspectives that address the relationships between concert and popular music.

Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song

Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 463
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ISBN-10 : 9781317052654
ISBN-13 : 131705265X
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song by : Allan F. Moore

Download or read book Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song written by Allan F. Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The musicological study of popular music has developed, particularly over the past twenty years, into an established aspect of the discipline. The academic community is now well placed to discuss exactly what is going on in any example of popular music and the theoretical foundation for such analytical work has also been laid, although there is as yet no general agreement over all the details of popular music theory. However, this focus on the what of musical detail has left largely untouched the larger question - so what? What are the consequences of such theorization and analysis? Scholars from outside musicology have often argued that too close a focus on musicological detail has left untouched what they consider to be more urgent questions related to reception and meaning. Scholars from inside musicology have responded by importing into musicological discussion various aspects of cultural theory. It is in that tradition that this book lies, although its focus is slightly different. What is missing from the field, at present, is a coherent development of the what into the so what of music theory and analysis into questions of interpretation and hermeneutics. It is that fundamental gap that this book seeks to fill. Allan F. Moore presents a study of recorded popular song, from the recordings of the 1920s through to the present day. Analysis and interpretation are treated as separable but interdependent approaches to song. Analytical theory is revisited, covering conventional domains such as harmony, melody and rhythm, but does not privilege these at the expense of domains such as texture, the soundbox, vocal tone, and lyrics. These latter areas are highly significant in the experience of many listeners, but are frequently ignored or poorly treated in analytical work. Moore continues by developing a range of hermeneutic strategies largely drawn from outside the field (strategies originating, in the most part, within psychology and philosophy) but still deeply r

A Guide to Musical Analysis

A Guide to Musical Analysis
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 0198165080
ISBN-13 : 9780198165088
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Guide to Musical Analysis by : Nicholas Cook

Download or read book A Guide to Musical Analysis written by Nicholas Cook and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extremely practical introduction to musical analysis explores the factors that give unity and coherence to musical masterpieces. Having first identified and explained the most important analytical methods, Nicholas Cook examines given compositions from the last two hundred years to show how different analytical procedures suit different types of music.

Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism

Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism
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Publisher : SAGE Publications
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9781452249698
ISBN-13 : 1452249695
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism by : Neil Nehring

Download or read book Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism written by Neil Nehring and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1997-03-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism are traced in this book. The result of this migration is a widespread fatalism over the ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in popular music. The book synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and theory from romanticism through postmodernism; alternative music such as feminist punk and grunge; political economy, which has fueled the obsession with commercial incorporation; and subcultural sociology.

Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music

Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781472428004
ISBN-13 : 1472428005
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Book Synopsis Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music by : Dr Ralf von Appen

Download or read book Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music written by Dr Ralf von Appen and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing books on the analysis of popular music focus on theory and methodology and normally discuss parts of songs briefly as examples. In this book the obverse is true: songs take centre stage. The authors analyse them from a variety of theoretical positions, compare their different hearings and discuss the ways in which they make sense of specific songs. By concentrating on 13 well-known and recent songs, this book offers some model analyses that can be studied at home or used in seminars and classrooms for students of popular music at all academic levels.