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Analyzing Popular Music

Howdowe ‘know’ music? We perform it, we compose it, we sing it in the

shower, we cook, sleep and dance to it. Eventually we think and write about it.

This book represents the culmination of such shared processes. Each of these

essays, written by leading writers on popular music, is analytical in some sense,

but none of them treats analysis as an end in itself. The book presents a wide

range of genres (rock, dance, TV soundtracks, country, pop, soul, easy

listening, Turkish Arabesk) and deals with issues as broad as methodology,

modernism, postmodernism, Marxism and communication. It aims to

encourage listeners to think more seriously about the ‘social’ consequences of

the music they spend time with and is the ﬁrst collection of such essays to

incorporate contextualization in this way.

ALLANF.MOOREis Professor of Popular Music and Head of the Department

of Music and Sound Recording at the University of Surrey. He is author of

Rock: The Primary Text and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Blues and

Gospel Music . He is also co-editor of the journals Popular Music and Twentieth-

Century Music .

Analyzing Popular Music

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