Interpreting Popular Music

Name: Interpreting Popular Music
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ISBN: 9780520225411

ISBN-10: 0520225414

ISBN-13: 9780520225411

Edition: 2000

Authors: David Brackett

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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.

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/25/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface



Introduction


Prelude



Codes and competences



Who is the author?



Musicology and popular music



Postlude



Family values in music? Billie Holiday's and Bing Crosby's "I'll Be Seeing You"



A tale of two (or three) recordings



Critical discourse



Biographical discourse



Style and history



Performance, effect, and affect



When you're lookin' at Hank (you're looking at country)



Lyrics, metanarratives, and the great authenticity debate



Sound, performance, gender, and the honky-tonk



"A feeling called the blues"



The emergence of "country-western"



James Brown's "Superbad" and the double-voiced utterance



The discursive space of black music



Signifyin(g)--words and performance



Musical signifyin(g)



Writing, music, dancing, and architecture in Elvis Costello's "Pills and Soap"



The "popular aesthetic"



Style and aesthetics



Interpretation and (post)modern pop



A question of influence



Afterword: the citizens of Simpleton


Appendix



Reading the spectrum photos



Registral terminology


Notes


Bibliography


Select discography


Index