Preface Introduction: Locating the Popular Music Text, Richard Middleton Part 1: Analyzing the Music 1. Randy Newman's Americana, Peter Winkler 2. Prince: Harmonic Analysis of "Anna Stesia", Stan Hawkins 3. Analyzing Popular Music: Theory, Method, and Practice, Philip Tagg 4. Po…
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Consists of 16 essays and the editor's introduction.
Pathbreaking media prepares students for class and homework. The Third Edition features new Know It? Show It! online pedagogy for students to complete as they read each chapter. First, video tutorials illuminate key learning objectives and illustrate problems similar to those in…
"For students learning the principles of music theory, it can often seem as though the tradition of tonal harmony is governed by immutable rules that define which chords, tones, and intervals can be used where. Yet even within the classical canon, there are innumerable examples …
For students learning the principles of music theory, it can often seem as though the tradition of tonal harmony is governed by immutable rules that define which chords, tones, and intervals can be used where. Yet even within the classical canon, there are innumerable examples o…
For students learning the principles of music theory, it can often seem as though the tradition of tonal harmony is governed by immutable rules that define which chords, tones, and intervals can be used where. Yet even within the classical canon, there are innumerable examples o…
"Kofi Agawu's Music as Discourse promises to quickly become a standard and definitive work in musical semiotics. Working at the nexus of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music philosophy and aesthetics, Agawu presents a synthetic and innovative approach to musical meaning which …
The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. This book presents a synthetic and innovative approach to musical meaning which argues deftly for the thinking of music as a discourse in its…
The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. This book presents a synthetic and innovative approach to musical meaning which argues deftly for the thinking of music as a discourse in its…