Interpreting Popular Music

Передня обкладинка
CUP Archive, 30 лист. 1995 р. - 260 стор.
David Brackett demonstrates that there is no one way of interpreting popular music but that different types of popular music use different types of rhetoric, refer to different arguments about musical complexity and familiarity, and draw upon different senses of history and tradition. He crosses the disciplines of cultural studies and music theory to consider how listeners evaluate popular songs and how they come to attribute a rich variety of meanings to them. Issues such as authorship, reception, musical codes, and different modes of representing and describing music are explored in the context of recordings made by Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Hank Williams, James Brown, and Elvis Costello. In analysing their music and lyrics, David Brackett shows how interpretations of songs develop in specific cultural and historical contexts.
 

Зміст

Family Values in Music? Billie Holidays and Bing Crosbys
34
When youre lookin at Hank youre looking at country
75
James Browns Superbad and the doublevoiced utterance
108
Writing music dancing and architecture in Elvis Costellos
157
the citizens of Simpleton
199
Notes
205
Bibliography
237
Discography
249
Авторські права

Інші видання - Показати все

Загальні терміни та фрази

Посилання на книгу

Music, Gender, Education
Lucy Green
Обмежений попередній перегляд - 1997
Popular Music and Society
Brian Longhurst
Обмежений попередній перегляд - 2007
Усі результати пошуку книг »

Бібліографічна інформація