Consists of 16 essays and the editor's introduction. Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-382) and index.
Contents:
Pt. 1. Analysing the music. Randy Newman's Americana / Peter Winkler ; Prince : harmonic analysis of 'Anna Stesia' / Stan Hawkins ; Analysing popular music : theory, method and practice / Philip Tagg ; Popular music analysis and musicology : bridging the gap / Richard Middleton ; James Brown's 'Superbad' and the double-voiced utterance / David Brackett ; 'Maybellene' : meaning and the listening subject / Sean Cubitt -- Pt. 2. Words and music. His name was in lights : Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B. Goode' / Timothy D. Taylor ; Listening to Peter Gabriel's 'I have the touch' / Umberto Fiori ; Three tributaries of 'The river' / Dai Griffiths ; Pity Peggy Sue / Barbara Bradley and Brian Torode -- Pt. 3. Modes of representation. Progressive rock and psychedelic coding in the work of Jimi Hendrix / Sheila Whiteley ; 'The hieroglyphics of love' : the torch singers and interpretation / John Moore ; Genre, performance and ideology in the early songs of Irving Berlin / Charles Hamm ; 'Everybody's lonesome for somebody' : age, the body and experience in the music of Hank Williams / Richard Leppert and George Lipsitz ; Postcolonialism on the make : the music of John Mellencamp, David Bowie and John Zorn / Ellie M. Hisama ; Structural relationships of music and images in music video / Alf Björnberg.
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