ISBN:
9780520925700
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (275 p.)
Edition:
Reprint 2019
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Popular music Analysis, appreciation
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Popular music History and criticism
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MUSIC / General
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20th century american music
;
billie holiday
;
bing crosby
;
biographical discourse
;
country western music
;
critical discourse
;
cultural music studies
;
cultural studies
;
elvis costello
;
family values
;
hank williams
;
james brown
;
lyrics
;
marketability of music
;
metanarratives
;
music performance
;
music style
;
music theory
;
music
;
musicology
;
popular aesthetic
;
popular genres
;
popular music
;
postmodern pop
;
recording music
;
spectrum graphs
;
speech act theory
Abstract:
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
Note:
Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
,
CHAPTER ONE. Introduction
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CHAPTER TWO. Family values in music? Billie Holiday's and Bing Crosby's "I'll Be Seeing You"
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CHAPTER THREE. When you're lookin' at Hank (you're looking at country)
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CHAPTER FOUR. James Browns "Superbad" and the double-voiced utterance
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CHAPTER FIVE. Writing, music, dancing, and architecture in Elvis Costello's "Pills and Soap"
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CHAPTER SIX. Afterword: the citizens of Simpleton
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Appendix
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Select discography
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Index
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In English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520925700
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