{"product_id":"interpreting-popular-music-9780520225411","title":"Interpreting Popular Music","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Prelude\u003cbr\u003e I. Codes and competences\u003cbr\u003e II. Who is the author?\u003cbr\u003e III. Musicology and popular music\u003cbr\u003e IV. Postlude\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2 Family values in music? Billie Holiday's and Bing Crosby's\u003cbr\u003e \"I'll Be Seeing You\"\u003cbr\u003e I. A tale of two (or three) recordings\u003cbr\u003e II. Critical discourse\u003cbr\u003e III. Biographical discourse\u003cbr\u003e IV. Style and history\u003cbr\u003e V. Performance, effect, and affect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3 When you're lookin' at Hank (you're looking at country)\u003cbr\u003e I. Lyrics, metanarratives, and the great authenticity debate\u003cbr\u003e II. Sound, performance, gender, and the hanky-tonk\u003cbr\u003e III. \"A feeling called the blues\"\u003cbr\u003e IV. The emergence of \"country-western\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 James Brown's \"Superbad\" and the double-voiced utterance\u003cbr\u003e I. The discursive space of black music\u003cbr\u003e II. Signifyin(g)-words and performance\u003cbr\u003e III. Musical signifyin(g)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 Writing, music, dancing, and architecture in Elvis Costello's\u003cbr\u003e \"Pills and Soap\"\u003cbr\u003e I. The \"popular aesthetic\"\u003cbr\u003e II. Style and aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e III. Interpretation and (post)modern pop\u003cbr\u003e IV. A question of influence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6 Afterword: the citizens of Simpleton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e A. Reading the spectrum photos\u003cbr\u003e B. Registral terminology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Select discography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402812170583,"sku":"9780520225411","price":24.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520225411.jpg?v=1730481578","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/interpreting-popular-music-9780520225411","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}