Sounding out pop
Subtitle: analytical essays in popular music
By: edited by Mark Spicer and John Covach.
Contributors: Spicer, Mark Stuart.; Covach, John Rudolph.
Series: Tracking pop
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780472115051; 9780472034000
Subjects: Popular music -- History and criticism; Popular music -- Analysis, appreciation
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Leiber and Stoller, the Coasters, and the dramatic AABA form / John Covach; title: Only the lonely : Roy Orbison's sweet West Texas style / Albin Zak; title: Ego and alter ego : artistic interaction between Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn / James Grier; title: Marvin Gaye as vocal composer / Andrew Flory; title: A study of maximally smooth voice leading in the mid-1970s music of Genesis / Kevin Holm-Hudson; title: Reggatta de blanc : analyzing style in the music of the Police / Mark Spicer; title: Vocal authority and listener engagement : musical and narrative expressive strategies in the songs of female pop-rock artists, 1993-95 / Lori Burns; title: Recombinant style topics : the past and future of sampling / Rebecca Leydon; title: I'm not here, this isn't happening : the vanishing subject in Radiohead's Kid A / Marianne Tatom Letts.