Reading pop : approaches to textual analysis in popular music / edited by Richard Middleton.

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Other Authors: Middleton, Richard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Analysing the music. Randy Newman's Americana / Peter Winkler ; Prince: Harmonic analysis of 'Anna Stesia' / Stan Hawkins ; Analysing popular music: theory, method, and practice / Philip Tagg ; Popular music analysis and musicology: bridging the gap / Richard Middleton ; James Brown's 'Superbad' and the double-voiced utterance / David Brackett ; 'Maybellene': Meaning and the listening subject / Sean Cubitt
  • Words and music. His name was in lights: Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B. Goode' / Timothy D. Taylor ; Listening to Peter Gabriel's 'I have the touch' / Umberto Fiori ; Three tributaries of 'The river' / Dai Griffiths ; Pity Peggy Sue / Barbara Bradby and Brian Torode
  • Modes of representation. Progressive rock and psychedelic coding in the work of Jimi Hendrix / Sheila Whiteley ; 'The hieroglyphics of love': the torch singers and interpretation / John Moore ; Genre, performance, and ideology in the early songs of Irving Berlin / Charles Hamm ; 'Everybody's lonesome for somebody': Age, the body, and experience in the music of Hank Williams / Richard Leppert and George Lipsitz ; Postcolonialism on the make: The music of John Mellencamp, David Bowie, and John Zorn / Ellie M. Hisama ; Structural relationships of the music and images in music video / Alf Björnberg.