Expression in Pop-Rock Music: Critical and Analytical Essays

Contents

• 1. The Musical World(s?) of Frank Zappa: Some Observations of his 'Crossover' Pieces
• 2. Frank Zappa's 'The Black Page': A Case of Musical 'Conceptual Continuity'
• 3. Analytic Methodologies for Rock Music: Harmonic and Voice-Leading Strategies in Tori Amos's 'Crucify'
• 4. Jazz-Rock? Rock-Jazz? Stylistic Crossover in Late-1970s American Progressive Rock
• 5. Pitch Down the Middle
• 6. Music, Contexts, and Meaning in U2
• 7. From L'Etranger to 'Killing an Arab': Representing the Other in a Cure Song
• 8. The Imagination of Pop-Rock Criticism
• 9. Trapped within the Wheels: Flow and Repetition, Modernism and Tradition in Stevie Wonder's 'Living for the City'
• 10. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy: Voice Leading, Tonal Structure, and the Theme of Self-Realization in the Music of Sarah McLachlan
• 11. Country-Pop Formulae and Craft: Shania Twain's Crossover Appeal
• 12. Large-Scale Strategy and Compositional Design in the Early Music of Genesis
• 13. Rock and Roll Rhapsody: Pop Epics of the 1970s