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A Collection of Critical and Analytical Essays
Everett, Walter
Walter Everett
ISBN: 9780815331605
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
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This collection of essays - written by ten of the leading musicologists and music theorists specializing in popular music - presents a wide range of scholarly approaches to understanding artistic expression in rock music. Some authors take a primarily analytical approach to the craft of composition…
This collection of essays, written by ten musicologists and music theorists specialising in popular music, presents a wide range of scholarly approaches to understanding artistic expression in rock music. Covering such artists as Frank Zappa, U2, Genesis, The Cure, Tori Amos, and Sarah McLachlan, these writings provide insights into the music that should be suitable for scholars, students and popular music fans alike.
| ISBN | 0815331606 | | Pages | 388 | | ISBN13 | 9780815331605
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 640 | | Imprint | Garland Publishing Inc | | Published in | CT | | Format | Hardback | | Series ISSN | 2 | | Publication date | 23 Dec 1999 | | Series title | Studies in Contemporary Music & Culture | | Non-book description | xii, 372 p. : | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Library of Congress | 99031744 | | Width (mm) | 140 | | DEWEY | 781.66 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly, General |
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| | | Series Editor's Foreword by Joseph Auner | | | | | | Editor's Preface by Walter Everett | | | | | | Introduction | | 1 | | Ch. 1 | | The Imagination of Pop-Rock Criticism by Nadine Hubbs | | 3 | | | | Politics and Musical Expression | | 31 | | Ch. 2 | | Music, Contexts, and Meaning in U2 by Susan Fast | | 33 | | Ch. 3 | | From L'Etranger to "Killing an Arab": Representing the Other in a Cure Song by Ellie M. Hisama | | 59 | | | | Style Studies in Progressive Rock and Jazz-Rock Fusion | | 75 | | Ch. 4 | | Large-Scale Strategy and Compositional Design in the Early Music of Genesis by Mark S. Spicer | | 77 | | Ch. 5 | | Jazz-Rock? Rock-Jazz? Stylistic Crossover in Late-1970s American Progressive Rock by John Covach | | 113 | | | | Frank Zappa's Recompositions | | 135 | | Ch. 6 | | Frank Zappa's "The Black Page": A Case of Musical "Conceptual Continuity" by James Borders | | 137 | | Ch. 7 | | The Musical World(s?) of Frank Zappa: Some Observations of His "Crossover" Pieces by Jonathan W. Bernard | | 157 | | | | Rock Music and Linear Analysis | | 211 | | Ch. 8 | | Analytic Methodologies for Rock Music: Harmonic and Voice-Leading Strategies in Tori Amos's "Crucify" by Lori Burns | | 213 | | Ch. 9 | | Fumbling Towards Ecstasy: Voice-Leading, Tonal Structure, and the Theme of Self-Realization in the Music of Sarah McLachlan by Timothy Koozin | | 247 | | | | Conclusion | | 267 | | Ch. 10 | | Confessions from Blueberry Hell, or, Pitch Can Be a Sticky Substance by Walter Everett | | 269 | | | | Contributors | | 347 | | | | Index of Names and Titles | | 351 |
"This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature of popular-music analysis, both in its diversity and its focus on musical text."-Notes  Be the first to write a customer review
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