On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements

ISBN-13: 9783030181017 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 269 str.

Nick Braae; Kai Arne Hansen

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Introduction; Nick Braae and Kai Arne Hansen

Section I: Broad Strokes

1. Scratching the Surface: Texts and Textures in Music Studies—or, Musicology without Music; Kyle Devine

2. From Music Analysis to Narrative Reading: A Case Study of Recorded Popular Song; Alex C. Harden

3. Kristeva and Popular Music; Nathan Wiseman-Trowse

4. The Shape of the Voice: Analyzing Vocal Gestures in Irish Traditional Music and Popular Song; Bláithín Duggan

5. It’s a Dark Philosophy: The Weeknd, Intermediality, and the Aestheticization of Provocative Themes; Kai Arne Hansen

Section II: Second Takes

6. Treating Cultural Trauma with Music: The Representation of War in the Music of Bruce Springsteen; Susanna Välimäki

7. Linear Temporality in Popular Song; Nick Braae

8. “To Prepare a Face to Meet the Faces that you Meet”: The Instrumental Retrowave Persona; Andrei Sora

9. Electric Affinities: Wagner, Hendrix, and the Thingness of Sound; Erik Steinskog

Section III: Entanglements

10. Timbre, Genre, and Polystylism in Video Game Music; Megan Lavengood

11. A Musical Exploration of Incongruity and its Humorous Effects; Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen

12. The Empowerment of the Listener in Kendrick Lamar’s “Backseat Freestyle”; Steven Gamble

13. Psychedelic Ways of Listening: A Gothic Case Study; Claire Rebecca Bannister

14. Taken by Strum: Ukulele Jamming as Musical Experience; Matthew Bannister

Afterword; Allan F. Moore

O autorze

Nick Braae is an academic staff member in Music at the Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand.

Kai Arne Hansen is Associate Professor of Music in the Department of Art and Cultural Studies, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.