Critical Essays in Popular Musicology

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Part I Contexts for Addressing Texts: Theory: 'Black music', 'Afro-American music', and 'European music', Philip Tagg
• A theory of musical competence, Gino Stefani
• Can we get rid of the 'popular' in popular music?, a virtual symposium with contributions from the international advisory editors of Popular Music, Various
• Browsing musical spaces: categories and the musical mind, Franco Fabbri
• The high analysis of low music, Dai Griffiths
• Second thoughts on a rock aesthetic: The Band, Andrew Chester
• Why I'll never teach rock 'n' roll again, Sean MacCann
• Authenticity as authentication, Allan Moore
• Intertextuality and hypertextuality in recorded popular music, Serge Lacasse
• From refrain to rave: the decline of figure and the rise of ground, Philip Tagg
• What does it mean to analyse popular music?, Adam Krims
• Music Theory: The formation of a musical style:early rock, Ronald Byrnside
• Toward a theory of popular harmony, Peter K. Winkler
• On aeolian harmony in contemporary popular music, Alf BjArnberg
• The so-called 'flattened seventh' in rock, Allan Moore
• Making sense of rock's tonal systems, Walter Everett
• Incongruity and predictability in British dance-band music of the 1920s and 1930s, Derek B. Scott
• Rhythm, rhyme and rhetoric in the music of Public Enemy, Robert Walser. Part II Addressing Texts: Fantastic remembrance in John Lennon's 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'Julia', Walter Everett
• The Rutles and the use of specific models in musical satire, John R. Covach
• The aesthetics of music video: an analysis of Madonna's 'Cherish', Carol Vernallis
• 'Gently tender': the Incredible String Band's early albums, Charlie Ford
• Cathy's homecoming and the other world: Kate Bush's 'Wuthering Heights', Nicky Losseff
• Pulp, pornography and spectatorship: subject matter and subject position in Pulp's 'This is Hardcore', Nicola Dibben
• Glamour and evasion: the fabulous ambivalence of the Pet Shop Boys, Fred E. Maus
• Vicars of 'wannabe': authenticity and the Spice Girls, Elizabeth Eva Leach
• Oh Boy! (Oh Boy!): mutual desirability and musical structure in the buddy group, Barbara Bradby
• Name index.