Words Music And The Popular

Author : Thomas Gurke,Susan Winnett
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030855437

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Words, Music, and the Popular by Thomas Gurke,Susan Winnett Pdf

Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations opens up the notion of the popular, drawing useful links between wide-ranging aspects of popular culture, through the lens of the interaction between words and music. This collection of essays explores the relation of words and music to issues of the popular. It asks: What is popularity or ‘the’ popular and what role(s) does music play in it? What is the function of the popular, and is ‘pop’ a system? How can popularity be explained in certain historical and political contexts? How do class, gender, race, and ethnicity contribute to and complicate an understanding of the ‘popular’? What of the popularity of verbal art forms? How do they interact with music at particular times and throughout different media?

Author : Paul Morley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781408864340

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Words & Music by Paul Morley Pdf

Has pop burnt itself out? Inspired by the video for Kylie Minogue's hit single 'Can't Get You Out of My Head', acclaimed rock journalist Paul Morley is driving with Kylie towards a virtual city built of sound and ideas in search of the answer. Their journey bridges the various paradoxes of twentieth-century culture, as they encounter a succession of celebrities and geniuses - including Madonna, Kraftwerk, Wittgenstein and the ghost of Elvis Presley - and explore the iconic and the obscure, the mechanical and the digital, the avant-garde and the very nature of pop itself.

Author : Ekay Music, Incorporated
Publisher : Shacor, Inc.
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 0943748453

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100 All-time Popular Hits by Ekay Music, Incorporated Pdf

Author : Trevor Herbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199888320

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Music in Words by Trevor Herbert Pdf

Music in Words is a compact guide to researching and writing about music, addressing all the issues that anyone who writes about music--from students to professional musicians and critics--may confront when putting together anything from brief program notes to a lengthy thesis. The book is a writing guide and a reference manual in one: the first part, a "how to" section, offers a clear explanation of the purpose of music research and how it is to be done, including basic introductions to the most necessary tools for musical inquiry (with special emphasis on strategic use of the internet), and how they can be accessed and used. The second part is a compendium of information on style and sources for quick reference, including a straightforward presentation of the purpose and use of citation and reference systems as they are applied to and in music. As a whole, the volume gives readers a clear picture of how to write about music at different levels and for different purposes in a handy, thoroughly cross-referenced format. This American edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded, and features an extensive section on writing for the Internet and new sections on writing for jazz, popular music, world musics, and ethnography. Additionally, a companion website presents a broad range of writing samples and links to key resources.

Author : Lehman Engel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015013960789

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Their Words are Music by Lehman Engel Pdf

Author : James Bennighof
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313082795

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The Words and Music of Paul Simon by James Bennighof Pdf

Paul Simon is commonly acknowledged to be one of the most successful singer-songwriters of the pop-rock era. His work has flourished in the context of Simon and Garfunkel as well as in his own solo career. Starting with the folk-rock style that marked his earliest significant success, he has drawn on a wide variety of influences, including many American traditions and, later, many international ones as well. He has won multiple Grammy awards in both the duo and the solo phases of his career. His songwriting has also provided the impetus for brief forays into film and musical theatre. After providing a brief biographical overview, this work examines Simon's songwriting work in depth, providing a critical discussion of each song as a fusion of text and music so as to help the reader to identify elements that enhance appreciation. A particularly valuable contribution in this context is the discussion of the wide variety of musical elements that contribute significantly to the value of Simon's work. These include such easily-understandable issues as verse-chorus structure, melodic variation, selection of particular instruments and even performers, variation of musical style within a song, general harmonic characteristics, relationships among keys, rhythm and pacing of text, etc. While the book proceeds chronologically through Simon's recorded output, specific threads are developed throughout, and the discussion of individual songs takes place in the context of these threads, both drawing on them and developing them further. The diversity of Paul Simon's work reflects his very American background, and no discussion of American music is complete without accounting for his influence.

Author : James E. Perone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9798216168027

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The Words and Music of Taylor Swift by James E. Perone Pdf

This scholarly analysis of the music of Taylor Swift identifies how and why she is one of the early 21st century's most recognizable and most popular stars. By the age of 13, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift had already inked a development deal with a major record label. This early milestone was an appropriate predictor of what accomplishments were to come. Now a superstar artist with an international fanbase of millions and several critically acclaimed and commercially successful albums, Swift has established herself as one of the most important musicians of the 21st century. This accessible book serves Taylor Swift fans as well as students of contemporary popular music and popular culture, critically examining all of this young artist's work to date. The book's organization is primarily chronological, covering Taylor Swift's album and single releases in order of release date while also documenting the elements of her music and personality that have made her popular with fans of country music and pop music across a surprisingly diverse age range of listeners. The chapters address how Swift's songs have been viewed by some fans as anthems of empowerment or messages of encouragement, particularly by members of the LGBTQ community, those who have been bullied or been seen as outsiders, and emerging artists. The final chapter places Swift's work and her public persona in the context of her times with respect to her use of and relationship with technology—for example, her use of social media and songwriting technology—and her expressions of a new type of feminism that is unlike the feminism of the 1970s.

Author : Michelle Gadpaille,Victor Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527558434

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Words, Music and Gender by Michelle Gadpaille,Victor Kennedy Pdf

Musicians, teachers and those who love music will find in this volume some answers to the question of how gender affects its practice, performance and reception. What was performing like for female rock singers in the 20th century? How did Bowie change our concept of performer identity? Just how sexist are the lyrics in glam metal songs? Is rap as homophobic as has been thought? Can female metal singers growl as well as men? Are LGBTQ+ issues reflected in 21st century music? Did Canadian New Wave groups tackle major social issues? How do Shakespeare and Joyce use musical puns and allusions? From Indian thumri, through French opera, Irish folk songs, and pop, all the way to metal and rap, the 17 contributions gathered here will challenge and inform, while confirming that our music shapes our habits, language, ideas and gendered selves.

Author : Kelly Fisher Lowe
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0803260059

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The Words and Music of Frank Zappa by Kelly Fisher Lowe Pdf

A deep look at the work of one of the most insightful and incisive critics of late 20th-century American culture.

Author : Christopher R. Gabel,Christopher Gable
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781573567299

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The Words and Music of Sting by Christopher R. Gabel,Christopher Gable Pdf

Sting has successfully established himself as one of the most important singer-songwriters in Western popular music over the past twenty years. His affinity for collaborative work and disparate musical styles has pushed his music into an astonishing array of contexts, but no matter what the style or who the collaborator, Sting's voice always remains distinct, and this fact has earned him success amongst a correspondingly broad audience. The Words and Music of Sting subdivides Sting's life and works into rough periods of creative activity and offers a fantastic opportunity to view Sting's many stylistic changes within a coherent general framework. After analyzing Sting's musical output album by album and song by song, author Christopher Gable sums up Sting's accomplishments and places him on the continuum of influential singer-songwriters, showing how he differs and relates to other artists of the same period. Aside from his commercial success, Sting is also interesting for the use of recurring themes in his lyrics (such as family relationships, love, war, spirituality, and work) and for his use of jazz and world music to illustrate or work against the meaning of a song. Sting's life also sheds light on his music, as his working-class roots in Newcastle, England are never far removed from his international superstardom. Throughout his life, he has been musically open-minded and inquisitive, always seeking out new styles and often incorporating them into his compositions.

Author : Tjaša Mohar,Victor Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527552951

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Words, Music and Propaganda by Tjaša Mohar,Victor Kennedy Pdf

Music is used to sell everything from cars to political candidates. How can words and melody so successfully manipulate us? This volume provides answers by examining the ways in which music of various genres, including folk, popular music, rock, and rap, is used to protest and to promote structures of political, commercial, and religious authority. Students, teachers, musicians, historians, policy makers, and fans of music and popular culture will find answers to questions such as: How does music help to build national identity, foster a sense of patriotism, and reflect changes in society? What role did music play in building socialism in Czechoslovakia and in Belarus’ 2020 democratic movement? What are the most important features of Ukrainian songs of resistance? The book highlights the role of music in the feminist movement by analysing the Riot Grrrl movement and the history of Olivia Records, as well as the use of music as propaganda in the education system and as “purity propaganda” in religion. Two chapters focus on famous American protest singers, Woody Gurthie and Phil Ochs, and one highlights an ex-socialist society’s response to David Bowie’s music.

Author : Patrick M. Patterson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498550369

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Music and Words by Patrick M. Patterson Pdf

This book analyzes composer Nakayama Shimpei’s popular songs in the context of Japan’s developing record industry and popular music market between 1887 and 1952.

Author : Allan F. Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139435345

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Analyzing Popular Music by Allan F. Moore Pdf

How do we know music? We perform it, we compose it, we sing it in the shower, we cook, sleep and dance to it. Eventually we think and write about it. This book represents the culmination of such shared processes. Each of these essays, written by leading writers on popular music, is analytical in some sense, but none of them treats analysis as an end in itself. The books presents a wide range of genres (rock, dance, TV soundtracks, country, pop, soul, easy listening, Turkish Arabesk) and deals with issues as broad as methodology, modernism, postmodernism, Marxism and communication. It aims to encourage listeners to think more seriously about the 'social' consequences of the music they spend time with and is the first collection of such essays to incorporate contextualisation in this way.

Author : Thomas Gurke,Susan Winnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030855449

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Words, Music, and the Popular by Thomas Gurke,Susan Winnett Pdf

Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations opens up the notion of the popular, drawing useful links between wide-ranging aspects of popular culture, through the lens of the interaction between words and music. This collection of essays explores the relation of words and music to issues of the popular. It asks: What is popularity or 'the' popular and what role(s) does music play in it? What is the function of the popular, and is 'pop' a system? How can popularity be explained in certain historical and political contexts? How do class, gender, race, and ethnicity contribute to and complicate an understanding of the 'popular'? What of the popularity of verbal art forms? How do they interact with music at particular times and throughout different media?

Author : Vincent P. Benitez Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313349706

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The Words and Music of Paul McCartney by Vincent P. Benitez Jr. Pdf

This examination of the solo music of Paul McCartney, from 1970-2007, offers an analysis of his songs, recordings, and his impact on popular music. The Words and Music of Paul McCartney: The Solo Years examines the large and varied oeuvre of this deeply personal artist, showing how McCartney's stint as a Beatle continues to inform his solo music, as well as how he has transcended his days as a member of the Fab Four. After a biographical introduction, chronologically arranged chapters explore McCartney's music in the immediate aftermath of the breakup of the Beatles, his work with Wings during the 1970s, his collaborations with other artists during the 1980s, and his compositions of the 1990s, including his first forays into classical music. The examination also covers McCartney's critically acclaimed work in the first decade of the 21st century, including Memory Almost Full and Ecce Cor Meum, a composition written in the style of sacred English choral music. Throughout, the book supplies analytical insights and historical background to a repertoire that, surprisingly, has not previously been covered in detail.