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Sounding out pop : analytical essays in popular music / edited by Mark Spicer and John Covach.

Title
Sounding out pop : analytical essays in popular music / edited by Mark Spicer and John Covach.
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Covach, John Rudolph
  • Spicer, Mark Stuart
Description
xiv, 265 p. : ill., music; 23 cm.
Summary
"The nine essays [in this book] work together to map the myriad styles and genres of the pop-rock universe through detailed case studies that confront the music from a variety of ... perspectives - from historical to music-analytic, aesthetic to ethnographic, with several authors drawing liberally from ideas in other disciplines."--Back cover.
Series Statement
Tracking pop
Uniform Title
Tracking pop.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Leiber and Stoller, the Coasters, and the "dramatic AABA" form / John Covach -- "Only the lonely" : Roy Orbison's sweet West Texas style / Albin Zak -- Ego and alter ego : artistic interaction between Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn / James Grier -- Marvin Gaye as vocal composer / Andrew Flory -- A study of maximally smooth voice leading in the mid-1970s music of Genesis / Kevin Holm-Hudson -- "Reggatta de blanc" : analyzing style in the music of the Police / Mark Spicer -- Vocal authority and listener engagement : musical and narrative expressive strategies in the songs of female pop-rock artists, 1993-95 / Lori Burns -- Recombinant style topics : the past and future of sampling / Rebecca Leydon -- "I'm not here, this isn't happening" : the vanishing subject in Radiohead's Kid A / Marianne Tatom Letts.
ISBN
  • 9780472115051 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0472115057 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780472034000 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0472034006 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2009050341
OCLC
  • 466344498
  • SCSB-10150736
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library