Analyzing Popular Music

by Allan F. Moore (Editor)

How do we "know" music? We perform it, compose it, sing it in the shower; cook, sleep and dance to it. Eventually we think and write about it. This book represents the culmination of such shared processes. Portraying a wide range of genres (rock, dance, TV soundtracks, country, pop, soul, easy listening, Turkish Arabesk), the essays cover methodology, modernism, postmodernism, Marxism and communication.

Genres: Music, Nonfiction

284 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[April · Rating 3 out of 5]

Het feit dat de hele inleiding gaat over hoe muzikale analyse nooit deftig is toegepast in pop musicologie om dan 10 aparte essays aan te bieden waar geen enkele een comprehensive of eenzelfde methode offert voor analyse…. Kinda clown behaviour guys!!!! Hier en daar wat interessante kaders voor de thesis though

[Tolga · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highlights:

"Popular music analysis: ten apothegms and four instances" by Robert Walser
"The determining role of performance in the articulation of meaning: the case of 'Try a Little Tenderness'" by Rob Bowman
"Pangs of history in late 1970s new-wave rock" by John Covach
"Talk and text: popular music and ethnomusicology" by Martin Stokes