Analyzing popular music [electronic resource] / edited by Allan F. Moore. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003. - ix, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-257), discography (p. 258-260) and index.

Popular music analysis : ten apothegms and four instances / From lyric to anti-lyric : analyzing the words in pop song / The sound is "out there" : score, sound design, and exoticism in The X-files / Feel the beat come down : house music as rhetoric / The determining role of performance in the articulation of meaning : the case of "Try a little tenderness" / Marxist music analysis without Adorno : popular music and urban geography / Jethro Tull and the case for modernism in mass culture / Pangs of history in late 1970s rock / Is anybody listening? / Talk and text : popular music and ethnomusicology / Rob Walser -- Dai Griffiths -- Robynn J. Stilwell -- Stan Hawkins -- Rob Bowman -- Adam Krims -- Allan F. Moore -- John Covach -- Chris Kennett -- Martin Stokes.


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Popular music--Analysis, appreciation.
Popular music--History and criticism.
Musical analysis.


Electronic books.

MT146 / .A54 2003eb

781.64