Rock Music

Herausgeber: Spicer, Mark

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume gathers together twenty articles from among the best scholarly writing on rock music published in academic journals over the past two decades. These diverse essays reflect the wide range of approaches that scholars in various disciplines have applied to the study of rock and provide an overview of the current state of research in the fi

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9781032919201
• ISBN-10: 1032919205
• Artikelnr.: 71623457

Autorenporträt

Mark Spicer is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the CUNY Graduate Center, and also Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music at Hunter College of the City University of New York, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: the rock (academic) circus; Part I Histories,
Aesthetics and Ideologies: Prolegomena to any aesthetics of rock music,
Bruce Baugh; Fans and critics: Greil Marcus's Mystery Train as rock 'n'
roll history, Mark Mazullo; Synergies and reciprocities: the dynamics of
musical and professional interaction between the Beatles and Bob Dylan, Ian
Inglis; The hippie aesthetic: cultural positioning and musical ambition in
early progressive rock, John Covach; Consuming nature: the Grateful Dead's
performance of an anticommercial counterculture, Nadya Zimmerman; The
future is now...and then: sonic historiography in post-1960s rock, Kevin
Holm-Hudson; Indie: the institutional politics and aesthetics of a popular
music genre, David Hesmondhalgh; When women play the bass: instrument
specialization and gender interpretation in alternative rock music, Mary
Ann Clawson; All singers are dicks, Deena Weinstein; Intimacy and distance:
on Stipe's queerness, Fred Maus. Part II Sounds, Structures and Styles: The
melodic-harmonic 'divorce' in rock, David Temperley; Triadic modal and
pentatonic patterns in rock music, Nicole Biamonte; Transformation in rock
harmony: an explanatory strategy, Christopher Doll; The persona-environment
relation in recorded song, Allan F. Moore; (Ac)cumulative form in pop-rock
music, Mark Spicer; Every inch of my love: Led Zeppelin and the problem of
cock rock, Steve Waksman; Examining rhythmic and metric practices in Led
Zeppelin's musical style, John Brackett; Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix:
juxtaposition and transformation All Along the Watchtower, Albin J. Zak
III; The learned vs. the vernacular in the songs of Billy Joel, Walter
Everett; Sound, text and identity in Korn's Hey Daddy, Jonathan Pieslak;
Name index.