Analyzing Popular Music

by Allan F. Moore

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521771207
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/22/2003
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Allan F. Moore is Professor of Popular Music and Head of the School of Performing Arts at the University of Surrey. He is author of Rock: The Primary Text and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music. He is also co-editor of the journals Popular Music and Twentieth-Century Music

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement; Contributors; 1. Introduction Allan F. Moore; 2. Popular music analysis: ten apothegms and four instances Robert Walser; 3. From lyric to anti-lyric: analysing the words in pop songs Dai Griffiths; 4. The sound is 'out there': score, sound design and exoticism in The X-Files Robynn J. Stilwell; 5. Feel the beat come down: house music as rhetoric Stan Hawkins; 6. The determining role of performance in the articulation of meaning: the case of 'Try a Little Tenderness' Rob Bowman; 7. Marxist music analysis without Adorno: popular music and urban geography Adam Krims; 8. Jethro Tull and the case for modernism in mass culture Allan F. Moore; 9. Pangs of history in late 1970s new-wave rock John Covach; 10. Is anybody listening? Chris Kennett; 11. Talk and text: popular music and ethnomusicology Martin Stokes; Bibliography; Discography; Film/Videography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Popular music experts will certianly be stimulated by the scholarship contained in this volume." Notes

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