The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis

Contents

• Part 1 : Establishing and Expanding Analytical Frameworks /
• 1. Some Practical Issues in the Aesthetic Analysis of Popular Music ( Christopher Doll) /
• 2. Style as Analysis ( Phil Ford) /
• 3. Thank You for the Music ( Giles Hooper) /
• 4. Listening to the Sound Music Makes (Allan F. Moore) /
• 5. Analyse This: Types and Tactics of Self-Referential Songs ( Bethany Lowe with Freya Jarman) /
• 6. A-ha's "Take on Me": Melody, Vocal Compulsion and Rotoscoping ( Stan Hawkins and Jon Mikkel Broch Alvik) /
• 7. Interpreting Transmedia and Multimodal Narratives: Steven Wilson's 'The Raven That Refused to Sing' ( Lori Burns) /
• Part 2 : Technology and Timbre /
• 8. Analysing the Product of Recorded Musical Activity ( Simon Zagorski-Thomas) /
• 9. The Production of Timbre: Analyzing the Sonic Signatures of Tool's AEnima (1996) ( Kevin Osborn and Brad Osborn) /
• 10. "What Music Isn't Ambient in the 21 st Century?": A Design-Oriented Approach to Analyzing and Interpreting Ambient Music Recordings ( Victor Szabo) /
• 11. Electronically-Modified Voices as Expressing the (Post)Human Condition in Daft Punk's Random Access Memories (2013) ( Jane Piper Clendinning) /
• Part 3 : Rhythm, Pitch, and Harmony /
• 12. Pulse as Dynamic Attending: Analysing Beat Bin Metre in Neo Soul Grooves ( Anne Danielsen) /
• 13. Rhythmic Functions in Pop-Rock Music ( Nicole Biamonte) /
• 14. The Aesthetics of Drone ( Jonathan W. Bernard) /
• 15. A Tonal Axis to Grind: The Central Dyad in Sonic Youth's Divergent Textures ( David Heetderks) /
• 16. Chromatic Linear Progressions in Popular Music ( Neil Newton) /
• 17. System 7 ( Ciro Scotto) /
• 18. Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Toccata" and the Cyborg Essence of Alberto Gianastera ( Kevin Holm-Hudson) /
• Part 4 : Form and Structure /
• 19. Yes, the Psychedelic-Symphonic Cover, and "Every Little Thing ( John Covach) /
• 20. 'Silence in the Studio!' Collage as Retransition in Pink Floyd's 'Atom Heart Mother Suite' ( Shaugn O'Donnell) /
• 21. "Weed Crumbles into Glitter": Representing a Marijuana High in Frank Ocean's Blonde (John Brackett) /
• 22. Form and Time in Trout Mask Replica (Peter Silberman) /
• Part 5 : Critical Frameworks: Analytical, Formal, Structural, and Political /
• 23. New Music in a Borderless World ( Marianna Ritchey) /
• 24. Here Lies Love and the Politics of Disco-Opera ( Aine Mangaoang) /
• 25. The Love Detective: Cybernetic Cycles and the Mysteries of Desire in Arab Strap ( Stephen Overy and Kenneth Smith) /
• 26. Unending Eruptions: White-Collar Metal Appropriations of Classical Complexity, Experimentation, Elitism, and Cultural Legitimization ( Eric Smialek and Mei-Ra St-Laurent) /
• 27. Hearing Postmemory: Anne Frank in Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane over the Sea (Michael Spitzer) /
• 28. "Poet-Composers": Art and Legitimacy in the Singer-Songwriter Movement ( Christa Bentley)