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Interpreting Popular Music
David Brackett
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Description for Interpreting Popular Music
Paperback. 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? This text demonstrates how listeners form opinions about popular songs, and how they come to attribute a rich variety of meaning to them. Num Pages: 275 pages, 24 music examples, 5 tables. BIC Classification: AVA; AVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390. 275 pages, Illustrations. 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? This text demonstrates how listeners form opinions about popular songs, and how they come to attribute a rich variety of meaning to them. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AVA; AVG. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 16. Weight: 390.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
Number of Pages
275
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520225411
SKU
V9780520225411
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About David Brackett
David Brackett is Assistant Professor of Music at SUNY, Binghamton.
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