| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages) : music |
| Contents |
Progressive rock, "Close to the edge," and the boundaries of style / John Covach -- After sundown : the Beach Boys' experimental music / Daniel Harrison -- Blues transformations in the music of Cream / Dave Headlam -- "Joanie" get angry : k.d. lang's feminist revision / Lori Burns -- Swallowed by a song : Paul Simon's crisis of chromaticism / Walter Everett -- Little wing : a study in musical cognition / Matthew Brown -- Tonal and expressive ambiguity in "Dark star" / Graeme M. Boone |
| Summary |
Amid the recent increase in scholarly attention to rock music, Understanding Rock stands out as one of the first books that subjects diverse aspects of the music itself to close and sophisticated analytical scrutiny. Written by some of the best young scholars in musicology and music theory, the essays in this volume use harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, formal, and textual approaches in order to show how and why rock music works as music. Topics of discussion include the adaptation of blues and other styles to rock; the craft of songwriting; techniques and strategies of improvisation; the reinterpr |
| Analysis |
Humaniora Musik |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Rock music -- History and criticism
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Rock music -- Analysis, appreciation
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Punk.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Heavy Metal.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Rock.
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Rock music
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Rock music -- Analysis, appreciation
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Rock-'n-roll.
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Populaire muziek.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1602560765 |
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9781602560765 |
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0195356624 |
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9780195356625 |
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9780195100051 |
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0195100050 |
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1280451661 |
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9781280451669 |
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9780195100044 |
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0195100042 |
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9786610451661 |
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6610451664 |
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1423740483 |
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9781423740483 |
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