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Reading Pop: Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition

by Richard Middleton (Editor)


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Why do we enjoy pop songs (or not)? Why do they mean so much to us? What do they mean? Is it the sounds, the rhythms, or the words? Is it the singing, the personae of the stars, or the messages and images that the songs conjure up? Plenty of people have written about pop personalities, the music industry, or about their own tastes, but serious analysis of the songs themselves is still rare. This collection of essays, all previously published in the leading journal Popular Music, brings together key studies by many of the leading scholars studying pop music today. Together they add up to the first substantial anthology to focus on musical "texts." Collecting a wide range of approaches, and looking at songs by performers as varied as Irving Berlin, Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Peter Gabriel, Jimi Hendrix, John Mellencamp, David Bowie, James Brown, Randy Newman, and John Zorn, the book marks out a distinctive new territory characterized by the fusion of cultural studies and pop musicology. Reading Pop will be required reading for all serious students and lovers of popular music.

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To some degree the tripartite structure of the book is arbitrary.

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  • Title Reading Pop: Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music
  • Author Richard Middleton (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OUP Oxford
  • Date 2000-09-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780198166115 / 0198166117
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.6 x 0.98 in (21.64 x 14.22 x 2.49 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Musical analysis, Popular music - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-39903
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.64

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Richard Middleton is Professor of Music at the University of Newcastle.
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