Full Description
Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks is a collection of essays dedicated to the study of recorded popular music, with the aim of exploring "how the record shapes the song" (Moylan, Recording Analysis, 2020) from a variety of perspectives. Introduced with a Foreword by Paul Théberge, the distinguished editorial team has brought together a group of reputable international contributors to write about a rich collection of recordings.
Examining a diverse set of songs from a range of genres and points in history (spanning the years 1936-2020), the authors herein illuminate unique attributes of the selected tracks and reveal how the recording develops the expressive content of song performance.
Analyzing Recorded Music will interest all those who study popular music, cultural studies, and the musicology of record production, as well as popular music listeners.
Contents
Section I: Musical Genre, Culture, and Technology 1. "I Been Studying Rain": What Do We Hear When We Listen to the Blues of Robert Johnson? ("Preachin' Blues," 1936) 2. Analyzing Hip-Hop Hacktivism and Automobility in Injury Reserve's (2019) "Jailbreak the Tesla" (feat. Aminé) Section II: Track Revelations and Aural Mirrors 3. Hearing through the Grapevine: Marvin Gaye, Norman Whitfield and the Long Journey of Motown's Biggest Hit (1967) 4. "Let the Music Play" (1975): Hearing the Disco Mainstream in Barry White 5. Reaching for Stardom: Live and Studio Sound in Prince's "Purple Rain" (1984) Section III: Layers Make the Record 6. "In a Sky Full of People": Spatial and Cinematic Staging in Seal's "Crazy" (1990) 7. Come Together: Feeling the Distemper of Murk and Elation with the Beatles (1969) and with Sheila E. and Ringo Starr (2017 and 2020) 8. "A Tsunami of Voices": 10cc's "I'm Not in Love" (1975) 9. Counterpoint and Expression in the Music of U2: "Gloria" (1981) Section IV: Sonic Journeys 10. On the Structure of Feeling in Bob Dylan's "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You" (2020) 11. "You Never Give Me Your Money": The Abbey Road Medley (1969) 12. Listening Beyond the Recording: The Judds' "John Deere Tractor" (1984) Section V: Sampling and Reframing 13. Sonic Materiality and Boom-Bap Embodiment in Conway's "Biscotti Biscuit" (2018): An Autoethnography of Recording Analysis 14. "It Ain't But One Kind of Blues": Kid Koala's Bluesy Embrace of the Fragmented (2012) 15. "Three and a Half Minutes of Attitude": Vocal Delivery, Groove, and Production in Azealia Banks' "212" (2014) Section VI: Deconstructing the Mix and Production Process 16. Can You Hear the Thunder? The Tech-Processual Construction of Environmental and Emotional Situ in Ghost's "Cirice" (2015) 17. Three-Dimensional Doom: My Dying Bride's "Your Broken Shore" (2020) 18. Transforming A Pop Song: The Journey of the Extended Club Remix (Taz Vegas' "Am I Dreaming," 2019) Section VII: Voicing Identity through Genre 19. Framing the Female Voice in Doom Metal: Compositional and Sonic Elements in The Gathering's "Strange Machines" (Mandylion, 1995) 20. Masking: Queer Aesthetics and Production Tricks in Orville Peck's "Hope to Die" (2019) 21. "What Are You Gonna Tell Her?" (2020): Mickey Guyton's Advocacy and Protest for Equality in Country Music 22. Form, Genre, and Vocal Performance in Nicki Minaj's "Stupid Hoe" (2011) 23. Tracks and Transformations in The Wailers' "Concrete Jungle" (1973)
