Interpreting Popular Music
eBook - PDF

Interpreting Popular Music

With a new preface by the author

  1. 275 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Interpreting Popular Music

With a new preface by the author

About this book

There is a well-developed vocabulary for discussing classical music, but when it comes to popular music, how do we analyze its effects and its meaning? David Brackett draws from the disciplines of cultural studies and music theory to demonstrate how listeners form opinions about popular songs, and how they come to attribute a rich variety of meanings to them. Exploring several genres of popular music through recordings made by Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Hank Williams, James Brown, and Elvis Costello, Brackett develops a set of tools for looking at both the formal and cultural dimensions of popular music of all kinds.
There is a well-developed vocabulary for discussing classical music, but when it comes to popular music, how do we analyze its effects and its meaning? David Brackett draws from the disciplines of cultural studies and music theory to demonstrate how liste

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520225411
eBook ISBN
9780520925700
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Interpreting Popular Music
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 Family values in music? Billie Holiday's and Bing Crosby's “I’ll Be Seeing You”
  10. 3 When you're lookin' at Hank (you're looking at country)
  11. 4 James Brown's "Superbad" and the double-voiced utterance
  12. 5 Writing, music, dancing, and architecture in Elvis Costello's "Pills and Soap"
  13. 6 Afterword: the citizens of Simpleton
  14. Appendix
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Select discography
  18. Index