Expression in Pop-Rock Music: Critical and Analytical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780415979597 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 402 str.

Everett, Walter

Opis

This collection presents a wide range of scholarly approaches to understanding artistic expression in rock music and provides insights into the music.

Spis treści

1. The Musical World(s?) of Frank Zappa: Some Observations of his 'Crossover' Pieces  2. Frank Zappa’s 'The Black Page': A Case of Musical 'Conceptual Continuity'  3. Analytic Methodologies for Rock Music: Harmonic and Voice-Leading Strategies in Tori Amos's 'Crucify'  4. Jazz-Rock? Rock-Jazz? Stylistic Crossover in Late-1970s American Progressive Rock  5. Pitch Down the Middle  6. Music, Contexts, and Meaning in U2  7. From L’Étranger to 'Killing an Arab': Representing the Other in a Cure Song  8. The Imagination of Pop-Rock Criticism  9. Trapped within the Wheels: Flow and Repetition, Modernism and Tradition in Stevie Wonder’s 'Living for the City'  10. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy: Voice Leading, Tonal Structure, and the Theme of Self-Realization in the Music of Sarah McLachlan  11. Country-Pop Formulae and Craft: Shania Twain’s Crossover Appeal  12. Large-Scale Strategy and Compositional Design in the Early Music of Genesis  13. Rock and Roll Rhapsody: Pop Epics of the 1970s