ABSTRACT
Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks is a collection of essays dedicated to the study of recorded popular music, with the aim of exploring "how the record shapes the song" (Moylan, Recording Analysis, 2020) from a variety of perspectives. Introduced with a Foreword by Paul Théberge, the distinguished editorial team has brought together a group of reputable international contributors to write about a rich collection of recordings.
Examining a diverse set of songs from a range of genres and points in history (spanning the years 1936–2020), the authors herein illuminate unique attributes of the selected tracks and reveal how the recording develops the expressive content of song performance.
Analyzing Recorded Music will interest all those who study popular music, cultural studies, and the musicology of record production, as well as popular music listeners.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|35 pages
Musical Genre, Culture, and Technology
chapter 221|15 pages
“I Been Studying Rain”
part Section II|47 pages
Track Revelations and Aural Mirrors
chapter 583|12 pages
Hearing Through the Grapevine
part Section III|73 pages
Layers Make the Record
chapter 1066|20 pages
“In a Sky Full of People”
chapter 7|17 pages
Come Together
part Section IV|50 pages
Sonic Journeys
part Section V|45 pages
Sampling and Reframing
chapter 23013|17 pages
Sonic Materiality and Boom-Bap 1 Embodiment in Conway'S “Biscotti Biscuit” (2018)
chapter 14|11 pages
“It ain't but One Kind of blues”
chapter 15|15 pages
“Three and a Half Minutes of Attitude”
part Section VI|45 pages
Deconstructing the Mix and Production Process
chapter 27616|17 pages
Can You Hear the Thunder?
chapter 18|15 pages
Transforming a Pop Song
part Section VII|82 pages
Voicing Identity through Genre
