On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements

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Introduction
Nick Braae and Kai Arne Hansen
Section I : Broad Strokes
1. Scratching the Surface: Texts and Textures in Music Studies-or, Musicology without Music
Kyle Devine 2. From Music Analysis to Narrative Reading: A Case Study of Recorded Popular Song
Alex C. Harden 3. Kristeva and Popular Music
Nathan Wiseman-Trowse 4. The Shape of the Voice: Analyzing Vocal Gestures in Irish Traditional Music and Popular Song
Blaithin Duggan 5. It's a Dark Philosophy: The Weeknd, Intermediality, and the Aestheticization of Provocative Themes
Kai Arne Hansen
Section II : Second Takes
6. Treating Cultural Trauma with Music: The Representation of War in the Music of Bruce Springsteen
Susanna Valimaki 7. Linear Temporality in Popular Song
Nick Braae 8. "To Prepare a Face to Meet the Faces that you Meet": The Instrumental Retrowave Persona
Andrei Sora 9. Electric Affinities: Wagner, Hendrix, and the Thingness of Sound
Erik Steinskog
Section III : Entanglements
10. Timbre, Genre, and Polystylism in Video Game Music
Megan Lavengood 11. A Musical Exploration of Incongruity and its Humorous Effects
Ragnhild Brovig-Hanssen 12. The Empowerment of the Listener in Kendrick Lamar's "Backseat Freestyle"
Steven Gamble 13. Psychedelic Ways of Listening: A Gothic Case Study
Claire Rebecca Bannister 14. Taken by Strum: Ukulele Jamming as Musical Experience
Matthew BannisterAfterword
Allan F. Moore

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On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements comprises eleven essays that explore the myriad ways in which popular music is entwined within social, cultural, musical, historical, and media networks. The authors discuss genres as diverse as mainstream pop, hip hop, classic rock, instrumental synthwave, video game music, amateur ukelele groups, and audiovisual remixes, while also considering the music’s relationship to technological developments, various media and material(itie)s, and personal and social identity. The collection presents a range of different methodologies and theoretical positions, which results in an eclecticism that aptly demonstrates the breadth of contemporary popular music research. The chapters are divided into three major sections that address: wider theoretical and analytical issues (“Broad Strokes”), familiar repertoire or concepts from a new perspective (“Second Takes”), and the meanings to arise from music’s connections with other media forms (“Audiovisual Entanglements”).

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