Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks

Contents

• Section I : Musical Genre, Culture, and Technology
• 1. "I Been Studying Rain": What Do We Hear When We Listen to the Blues of Robert Johnson? ("Preachin' Blues," 1936)
• 2. Analyzing Hip-Hop Hacktivism and Automobility in Injury Reserve's (2019) "Jailbreak the Tesla" (feat. Amine)
• Section II : Track Revelations and Aural Mirrors
• 3. Hearing through the Grapevine: Marvin Gaye, Norman Whitfield and the Long Journey of Motown's Biggest Hit (1967)
• 4. "Let the Music the Play" (1975): Hearing the Disco Mainstream in Barry White
• 5. Reaching for Stardom: Live and Studio Sound in Prince's "Purple Rain" (1984)
• Section III : Layers Make the Record
• 6. "In a Sky Full of People": Spatial and Cinematic Staging in Seal's "Crazy" (1990)
• 7. Come Together: Feeling the Distemper of Murk and Elation with the Beatles (and with Sheila E. and Ringo Starr) (1969)
• 8. "A Tsunami of Voices": 10cc's "I'm Not in Love" (1975)
• 9. Counterpoint and Expression in the Music of U2: "Gloria" (1981)
• Section IV : Sonic Journeys
• 10. On the Structure of Feeling in Bob Dylan's "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You" (2020)
• 11. "You Never Give Me Your Money": The Abbey Road Medley (1969)
• 12. Listening Beyond the Recording: The Judds' "John Deere Tractor" (1984)
• Section V : Sampling and Reframing
• 13. Sonic Materiality and Boom-Bap Embodiment in Conway's "Biscotti Biscuit:" An Autoethnography of Recording Analysis (2018)
• 14. "It Ain't But One Kind of Blues": Kid Koala's Bluesy Embrace of the Fragmented (2012)
• 15. "Three and a Half Minutes of Attitude": Vocal Delivery, Groove, and Production in Azealia Banks' "212" (2014)
• Section VI : Deconstructing the Mix and Production Process
• 16. Can You Hear the Thunder? The Tech-Processual Construction of Environmental and Emotional Situ in Ghost's "Cirice" (2015)
• 17. Three-Dimensional Doom: My Dying Bride's "Your Broken Shore" (2020)
• 18. Transforming A Pop Song: The Journey of the Extended Club Remix (Taz Vegas' "Am I Dreaming," 2019)
• Section VII : Voicing Identity through Genre
• 19. Framing the Female Voice in Doom Metal: Compositional and Sonic Elements in The Gathering's "Strange Machines" ( Mandylion , 1995)
• 20. Masking: Queer Aesthetics and Production Tricks in Orville Peck's "Hope to Die" (2019)
• 21. "What Are You Gonna Tell Her?" (2020): Mickey Guyton's Advocacy and Protest for Equality in Country Music
• 22. Form, Genre, and Vocal Performance in Nicki Minaj's "Stupid Hoe" (2011)
• 23. Tracks and Transformations in The Wailers' "Concrete Jungle" (1973)