Analyzing Popular Music

Contents

• Acknowledgement
• Contributors
• 1. Introduction Allan F. Moore
• 2. Popular music analysis: ten apothegms and four instances Robert Walser
• 3. From lyric to anti-lyric: analysing the words in pop songs Dai Griffiths
• 4. The sound is 'out there': score, sound design and exoticism in The X-Files Robynn J. Stilwell
• 5. Feel the beat come down: house music as rhetoric Stan Hawkins
• 6. The determining role of performance in the articulation of meaning: the case of 'Try a Little Tenderness' Rob Bowman
• 7. Marxist music analysis without Adorno: popular music and urban geography Adam Krims
• 8. Jethro Tull and the case for modernism in mass culture Allan F. Moore
• 9. Pangs of history in late 1970s new-wave rock John Covach
• 10. Is anybody listening? Chris Kennett
• 11. Talk and text: popular music and ethnomusicology Martin Stokes
• Bibliography
• Discography
• Film/Videography
• Index.