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Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music (Paperback)
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Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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Existing books on the analysis of popular music focus on theory and
methodology, and normally discuss parts of songs briefly as
examples. The impression often given is that songs are being chosen
simply to illuminate and exemplify a theoretical position. In this
book the obverse is true: songs take centre stage and are given
priority. The authors analyse and interpret them intensively from a
variety of theoretical positions that illuminate the song. Thus,
methods and theories have to prove their use value in the face of a
heterogeneous, contemporary repertoire. The book brings together
researchers from very different cultural backgrounds and encourages
them to compare their different hearings and to discuss the ways in
which they make sense of specific songs. All songs analysed are
from the new millennium, most of them not older than three years.
Because the most widely popular styles are too often ignored by
academics, this book aims to shed light on how million sellers work
musically. Therefore, it encompasses a broad palette, highlighting
mainstream pop (Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, Lucenzo, Amy McDonald), but also
accounting for critically acclaimed 'indie' styles (Fleet Foxes,
Death Cab for Cutie, PJ Harvey), R&B (Destiny's Child, Janelle
Monae), popular hard rock (Kings of Leon, Rammstein), and current
electronic music (Andres, BjArk). By concentrating on 13 well-known
songs, this book offers some model analyses that can very easily be
studied at home or used in seminars and classrooms for students of
popular music at all academic levels.
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