The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches

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Part 1: Establishing and expanding analytical frameworks. 1. Some practical issues in the aesthetic analysis of popular music / Christopher Doll 2. Style as analysis / Phil Ford 3. Thank you for the music / Giles Hooper 4. Listening to the sound music makes / Allan F. Moore 5. Analyse this : types and tactics of self-referential songs / Bethany Lowe with Freya Jarman 6. A-ha's "Take on me": melody, vocal compulsion and rotoscoping / Stan Hawkins and Jon Mikkel Broch Ålvik 7. Interpreting transmedia and multimodal narratives : Steven Wilson's 'The raven that refused to sing' / Lori Burns -- Part 2: Technology and timbre. 8. Analysing the product of recorded musical activity / Simon Zagorski-Thomas 9. The production of timbre : analyzing the sonic signatures of tool's Ænima / 1996 / Kevin Osborn and Brad Osborn 10. "What music isn't ambient in the 21st century?" : a design-oriented approach to analyzing and interpreting ambient music recordings / Victor Szabo 11. Electronically-modified voices as expressing the (post)human condition in Daft Punk's Random access memories (2013) / Jane Piper Clendinning -- Part 3: Rhythm, pitch, and harmony. 12. Pulse as dynamic attending : analysing beat bin metre in neo soul grooves / Anne Danielsen 13. Rhythmic functions in pop-rock music / Nicole Biamonte 14. The aesthetics of drone / Jonathan W. Bernard 15. A tonal axis to grind : the central dyad in Sonic Youth's Divergent textures / David Heetderks 16. Chromatic linear progressions in popular music / Neil Newton 17. System 7 / Ciro Scotto 18. Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Toccata" and the cyborg essence of Alberto Ginastera / Kevin Holm-Hudson -- Part 4: Form and structure. 19. Yes, the psychedelic-symphonic cover, and 'Every little thing' / John Covach 20. 'Silence in the studio!' Collage as retransition in Pink Floyd's 'Atom heart mother suite' / Shaugn O'Donnell 21. "Weed crumbles into glitter" : representing a marijuana high in Frank Ocean's Blonde / John Brackett 22. Form and time in Trout mask replica / Peter Silberman -- Part 5: Critical frameworks : analytical, formal, structural, and political. 23. New music in a borderless world / Marianna Ritchey 24. Here lies love and the politics of disco-opera / Áine Mangaoang 25. The love detective : cybernetic cycles and the mysteries of desire in Arab Strap / Stephen Overy and Kenneth Smith 26. Unending eruptions : white-collar metal appropriations of classical complexity, experimentation, elitism, and cultural legitimization / Eric Smialek and Méi-Ra St-Laurent 27. Hearing postmemory : Anne Frank in Neutral Milk Hotel's In the aeroplane over the sea / Michael Spitzer 28. "Poet-composers" : art and legitimacy in the singer-songwriter movement / Christa Bentley.