Listening to Popular Music

Theodore Gracyk

• Hardcover | Tracking Pop
• It's long been assumed that people who prefer Led Zeppelin to Mozart live aesthetically impoverished lives. But why? Written by an award-winning popul... Lees meer

I Hear a Symphony

Andrew Flory

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• I Hear a Symphony opens new territory in the study of Motown's legacy, arguing that the music of Motown was indelibly shaped by the ideals of Detroit'... Lees meer

Critical Excess

J Griffith Rollefson

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracking Pop
• Jay-Z and Kanye West's 2011 Watch the Throne is a self-avowed "luxury rap" album centered on Eurocentric conceptions of nobility, artistry, and haute ... Lees meer

I Hear a Symphony

Andrew Flory

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracking Pop
• I Hear a Symphony opens new territory in the study of Motown's legacy, arguing that the music of Motown was indelibly shaped by the ideals of Detroit'... Lees meer

Queer Voices in Hip Hop

Lauron J Kehrer

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• Notions of hip hop authenticity, as expressed both within hip hop communities and in the larger American culture, rely on the construction of the rapp... Lees meer

Are We Not New Wave?

Theodore Cateforis

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• The definitive musical and cultural history of new wave music Lees meer

Soda Goes Pop

Joanna K Love

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• From its 1939 "Nickel, Nickel" jingle to pathbreaking collaborations with Michael Jackson and Madonna to its pair of X Factor commercials in 2011 and ... Lees meer

Uncharted

Bill Bruford

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracking Pop
• What do expert drummers do? Why do they do it? Is there anything creative about it? If so, how might that creativity inform their practice and that of... Lees meer

Good Vibrations

Philip Lambert

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracking Pop
• Good Vibrations brings together scholars with a variety of expertise, from music to cultural studies to literature, to assess the full extent of the c... Lees meer

Hearing Harmony

Christopher Doll

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• Hearing Harmony offers a listener-based, philosophical-psychological theory of harmonic effects for Anglophone popular music since the 1950s. It begin... Lees meer

Here for the Hearing

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracking Pop
• This book offers a series of essays that show the integrated role that musical structure (including harmony, melody, rhythm, meter, form, and musical ... Lees meer