Analyzing Popular Music
- Editor: Moore, Allan
Popular music experts will certianly be stimulated by the scholarship contained in this volume —
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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.