20th century american music
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Author_David Brackett
billie holiday
bing crosby
biographical discourse
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country western music
critical discourse
cultural music studies
cultural studies
elvis costello
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family values
hank williams
james brown
lyrics
marketability of music
metanarratives
music
music performance
music style
music theory
musicology
popular aesthetic
popular genres
popular music
postmodern pop
recording music
spectrum graphs
speech act theory
Product details
- ISBN 9780520225411
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Oct 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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There is a well-developed vocabulary for discussing classical music, but when it comes to popular music, how do we analyze its effects and its meaning? David Brackett draws from the disciplines of cultural studies and music theory to demonstrate how listeners form opinions about popular songs, and how they come to attribute a rich variety of meanings to them. Exploring several genres of popular music through recordings made by Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Hank Williams, James Brown, and Elvis Costello, Brackett develops a set of tools for looking at both the formal and cultural dimensions of popular music of all kinds.
David Brackett is Assistant Professor of Music at SUNY, Binghamton.
