ポピュラー音楽における身体化した表現：音楽的な身ぶりと主体性の理論 Embodied Expression in Popular Music : A Theory of Musical Gesture and Agency

著者名：Koozin, Timothy

Oxford University Press（2024/03/18発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780197692981
• eISBN：9780197693001

Description

Theory in popular music has historically tended to approach musical processes of rhythm, harmony, counterpoint, and form as abstractions, without very directly engaging the intimate connection between the performer and instrument in popular music performance. Embodied Expression in Popular Music illuminates under-researched aspects of music theory in popular music studies by situating musical analysis in a context of embodied movement in vocal and instrumental performance. Author Timothy Koozin offers a performance-based analytical methodology that progresses from basic idiomatic gestures, to gestural combinations and interactions with large-scale design, to broader interpretive strategies that engage with theories of embodiment, the musical topic, and narrative.The book examines artistic practices in popular song that draw from a vast range of stylistic sources, including rock, blues, folk, soul, funk, fusion, and hip-hop, as well as European classical and African American gospel musical traditions. Exploring the interrelationships in how we create, hear, and understand music through the body, Koozin demonstrates how a focus on body-instrument interaction can illuminate musical structures while leveling implied hierarchies of cultural value. He provides detailed analysis of artists' creative strategies in singing and playing their instruments, probing how musicians represent subjectivities of gender, race, and social class in shaping songs and whole albums. Tracing connections from foundational blues, gospel, and rock musicians to current rap artists, he clarifies how inferences of musical topic and narrative are part of a larger creative process in strategically positioning musical gestures. By engaging with songs by female artists and artists of color, Koozin also challenges the methodological framing of traditional theory scholarship.As a contribution to work on embodiment and meaning in music, this study of popular song explores how the situated and engaged body is active in listening, performing, and the formation of musical cultures, as it provides a means by which we understand our own bodies in relation to the world.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1. Guitar Voicing and Embodied Gesture in Rock1. Guitar Voicing I: Barre chords, Gesture, and Agency2. Guitar Voicing II: Open-String Chords, Fretboard Strategies, and Virtual SpacesPart 2. Gospel and Groove: Gestural Strategies in Soul and Funk 3. Funk at the Keyboard4. Pentatonic Space to Outer Space: Funk Bands and the Rise of AfrofuturismPart 3. Gestural Variation in Songs with Acoustic Instruments5. Temporality and Gesture in the Songs of Bob Dylan6. Counterpoint and Embodied Expression in the Music of Joni MitchellPart 4. Situating Gesture7. Keyboard Playing in the Beatles' Abbey Road: Topic, Persona, and Social Discourse8. Musical Topic and Ironic Gesture in the Songs of Steely Dan9. Voice in Hip HopGlossaryBibliographyIndex