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      The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis
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      The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis

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      Expanding Approaches

      The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis

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      The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis book

      Expanding Approaches
      ByCiro Scotto, Kenneth Smith, John Brackett
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 18 October 2018
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315544700
      Pages 460
      eBook ISBN 9781315544700
      Subjects Arts
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      Scotto, C., Smith, K., & Brackett, J. (2018). The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315544700

      ABSTRACT

      The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the scope of analytical approaches for popular music by incorporating methods developed for analyzing contemporary art music. This study endeavors to create a new analytical paradigm for examining popular music from the perspective of developments in contemporary art music.

      "Expanded approaches" for popular music analysis is broadly defined as as exploring the pitch-class structures, form, timbre, rhythm, or aesthetics of various forms of popular music in a conceptual space not limited to the domain of common practice tonality but broadened to include any applicable compositional, analytical, or theoretical concept that illuminates the music. The essays in this collection investigate a variety of analytical, theoretical, historical, and aesthetic commonalities popular music shares with 20th and 21st century art music. From rock and pop to hip hop and rap, dance and electronica, from the 1930s to present day, this companion explores these connections in five parts:

      • Establishing and Expanding Analytical Frameworks
      • Technology and Timbre
      • Rhythm, Pitch, and Harmony
      • Form and Structure
      • Critical Frameworks: Analytical, Formal, Structural, and Political

      With contributions by established scholars and promising emerging scholars in music theory and historical musicology from North America, Europe, and Australia, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches offers nuanced and detailed perspectives that address the relationships between concert and popular music.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part Part 1|1 pages

      Establishing and Expanding Analytical Frameworks

      chapter 1|12 pages

      Some Practical Issues in the Aesthetic Analysis of Popular Music

      ByChristopher Doll

      chapter 2|15 pages

      Style as Analysis

      ByPhil Ford

      chapter 3|16 pages

      Thank You for the Music

      ByGiles Hooper

      chapter 4|13 pages

      Listening to the Sound Music Makes

      ByAllan F. Moore

      chapter 5|19 pages

      Analyse This

      Types and Tactics of Self-Referential Songs
      ByBethany Lowe, Freya Jarman

      chapter 6|18 pages

      A-ha’s “Take on Me”

      Melody, Vocal Compulsion, and Rotoscoping
      ByStan Hawkins, Jon Mikkel Broch Ålvik

      chapter 7|19 pages

      Interpreting Transmedia and Multimodal Narratives

      Steven Wilson’s “The Raven That Refused to Sing”
      ByLori Burns

      part Part 2|1 pages

      Technology and Timbre

      chapter 8|16 pages

      Analysing the Product of Recorded Musical Activity

      BySimon Zagorski-Thomas

      chapter 9|11 pages

      The Production of Timbre

      Analyzing the Sonic Signatures of Tool’s Ænima (1996)
      ByKevin Osborn, Brad Osborn

      chapter 10|15 pages

      “What Music Isn’t Ambient in the 21st Century?”

      A Design-Oriented Approach to Analyzing and Interpreting Ambient Music Recordings
      ByVictor Szabo

      chapter 11|18 pages

      Electronically Modified Voices as Expressing the (Post)Human Condition in Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories (2013)

      ByJane Piper Clendinning

      part Part 3|1 pages

      Rhythm, Pitch, and Harmony

      chapter 12|11 pages

      Pulse as Dynamic Attending

      Analysing Beat Bin Metre in Neo Soul Grooves
      ByAnne Danielsen

      chapter 13|17 pages

      Rhythmic Functions in Pop-Rock Music

      ByNicole Biamonte

      chapter 14|13 pages

      The Aesthetics of Drone

      ByJonathan W. Bernard

      chapter 15|14 pages

      A Tonal Axis to Grind

      The Central Dyad in Sonic Youth’s Divergent Textures
      ByDavid Heetderks

      chapter 16|14 pages

      Chromatic Linear Progressions in Popular Music

      ByNeil Newton

      chapter 17|16 pages

      System 7

      ByCiro Scotto

      chapter 18|10 pages

      Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s ‘Toccata’ and the Cyborg Essence of Alberto Ginastera

      ByKevin Holm-Hudson

      part Part 4|1 pages

      Form and Structure

      chapter 19|14 pages

      Yes, the Psychedelic-Symphonic Cover, and “Every Little Thing” 1

      ByJohn Covach

      chapter 20|9 pages

      ‘Silence in the Studio!’

      Collage as Retransition in Pink Floyd’s ‘Atom Heart Mother Suite’
      ByShaugn O’Donnell

      chapter 21|15 pages

      “Weed Crumbles into Glitter”

      Representing a Marijuana High in Frank Ocean’s Blonde
      ByJohn Brackett

      chapter 22|17 pages

      Form and Time in Trout Mask Replica

      ByPeter Silberman

      part Part 5|1 pages

      Critical Frameworks: Analytical, Formal, Structural, and Political

      chapter 23|12 pages

      New Music in a Borderless World

      ByMarianna Ritchey

      chapter 24|17 pages

      347Here Lies Love and the Politics of Disco-Opera

      ByÁine Mangaoang

      chapter 25|14 pages

      The Love Detective

      Cybernetic Cycles and the Mysteries of Desire in Arab Strap
      ByStephen Overy, Kenneth Smith

      chapter 26|21 pages

      Unending Eruptions

      White-Collar Metal Appropriations of Classical Complexity, Experimentation, Elitism, and Cultural Legitimization
      ByEric Smialek, Méi-Ra St-Laurent

      chapter 27|16 pages

      Hearing Postmemory

      Anne Frank in Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane over the Sea
      ByMichael Spitzer

      chapter 28|10 pages

      “Poet-Composers”

      Art and Legitimacy in the Singer-Songwriter Movement
      ByChrista Anne Bentley
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