Analyzing Popular Music by Allan F Moore
How do we know music? We perform it, we compose it, we sing it in the shower, we cook, sleep and dance to it. Eventually we think and write about it. This book represents the culmination of such shared processes. Each of these essays, written by leading writers on popular music, is analytical in some sense, but none of them treats analysis as an end in itself. The books presents a wide range of genres (rock, dance, TV soundtracks, country, pop, soul, easy listening, Turkish Arabesk) and deals with issues as broad as methodology, modernism, postmodernism, Marxism and communication. It aims to encourage listeners to think more seriously about the 'social' consequences of the music they spend time with and is the first collection of such essays to incorporate contextualisation in this way.
"Popular music experts will certianly be stimulated by the scholarship contained in this volume" Notes
Allan F. Moore is Professor of Popular Music and Head of the School of Performing Arts at the University of Surrey. He is author of Rock: The Primary Text and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music. He is also co-editor of the journals Popular Music and Twentieth-Century Music
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521100359 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521100356 |
| Title | Analyzing Popular Music |
| Author | Allan F Moore |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2009-01-18 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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