Interpreting Popular Music
1st Calif pbk
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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 information
ISBN: | 9780520225411 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 15 Nov 2000 |
Edition: | 1st Calif pbk |
DEWEY: | 781.64 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 260 |
Weight: | 390g |
Height: | 227mm |
Width: | 156mm |
Spine width: | 16mm |