On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements

On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements

On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements comprises eleven essays that explore the myriad ways in which popular music is entwined within social, cultural, musical, historical, and media networks. The authors discuss genres as diverse as mainstream pop, hip hop, classic rock, instrumental synthwa...

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Other Authors: Braae, Nick (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hansen, Kai Arne (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Pop Music, Culture and Identity
Subjects:
Music.
Popular Culture.
Communication.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Music-Philosophy and aesthetics.
Popular Culture .
Media and Communication.
Cultural Theory.
Philosophy of Music.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Nick Braae and Kai Arne Hansen
  • Section I: Broad Strokes
  • 1. Scratching the Surface: Texts and Textures in Music Studies-or, Musicology without Music; Kyle Devine
  • 2. From Music Analysis to Narrative Reading: A Case Study of Recorded Popular Song; Alex C. Harden
  • 3. Kristeva and Popular Music; Nathan Wiseman-Trowse
  • 4. The Shape of the Voice: Analyzing Vocal Gestures in Irish Traditional Music and Popular Song; Bláithín Duggan
  • 5. It's a Dark Philosophy: The Weeknd, Intermediality, and the Aestheticization of Provocative Themes; Kai Arne Hansen
  • Section II: Second Takes
  • 6. Treating Cultural Trauma with Music: The Representation of War in the Music of Bruce Springsteen; Susanna Välimäki
  • 7. Linear Temporality in Popular Song; Nick Braae
  • 8. "To Prepare a Face to Meet the Faces that you Meet": The Instrumental Retrowave Persona; Andrei Sora
  • 9. Electric Affinities: Wagner, Hendrix, and the Thingness of Sound; Erik Steinskog
  • Section III: Entanglements
  • 10. Timbre, Genre, and Polystylism in Video Game Music; Megan Lavengood
  • 11. A Musical Exploration of Incongruity and its Humorous Effects; Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen
  • 12. The Empowerment of the Listener in Kendrick Lamar's "Backseat Freestyle"; Steven Gamble
  • 13. Psychedelic Ways of Listening: A Gothic Case Study; Claire Rebecca Bannister
  • 14. Taken by Strum: Ukulele Jamming as Musical Experience; Matthew Bannister
  • Afterword; Allan F. Moore.

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