Analysing Popular Music
Image, Sound and Text
David Machin
- 240 pagine
- English
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Analysing Popular Music
Image, Sound and Text
David Machin
Informazioni sul libro
Popular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. Like language these elements can be used to communicate complex cultural ideas, values, concepts and identities.
Analysing Popular Music is a lively look at the semiotic resources found in the sounds, visuals and words that comprise the ?code book? of popular music. It explains exactly how popular music comes to mean so much. Packed with examples, exercises and a glossary, this book provides the reader with the knowledge and skills they need to carry out their own analyses of songs, soundtracks, lyrics and album covers.
Written for students with no prior musical knowledge, Analysing Popular Music is the perfect toolkit for students in sociology, media and communication studies to analyse, understand - and celebrate - popular music.
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Indice dei contenuti
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Discourses of Popular Music
- 2 Album Iconography: Postures, Objects, Settings
- 3 Visual Composition: Typeface and Colour
- 4 Analysing Lyrics: Values, Participants, Agency
- 5 Semiotic Resources in Sound: Pitch, Melody and Phrasing
- 6 Sound Qualities: Arrangement and Rhythm
- 7 Analysing Genre: The Sounds of Britpop
- 8 Analysing Music in Film
- 9 Analysing Music in Video and Television
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- References
- Index