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An edition of Interpreting popular music (1995)

Interpreting Popular Music

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In this book David Brackett demonstrates that there is no one way of interpreting popular music but that different types of popular music use different types of rhetoric, refer to different arguments about musical complexity and familiarity and draw upon different senses of history and tradition. He crosses the disciplines of contemporary cultural studies and music theory to demonstrate how listeners form their evaluations of popular songs and how they come to attribute a rich variety of meanings to them.

Issues such as authorship, reception, musical codes, and different modes of representing and describing music are explored in the context of recordings made by Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Hank Williams, James Brown, and Elvis Costello. In analyzing their music and lyrics. David Brackett shows how interpretations of songs develop in specific cultural and historical contexts.

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English
Pages
260

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Interpreting Popular Music: With a New Preface by the Author
2000, University of California Press
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Interpreting Popular Music
November 6, 2000, University of California Press
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Interpreting popular music
1995, Cambridge University Press
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First Sentence

"In 1965, a recording by Gary Lewis and the Playboys, "This Diamond Ring," shot up the popularity charts shortly after its release, eventually reaching the number one position in February."

Classifications

Library of Congress
ML3470.B73 2000, ML3470 .B73 2000

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
260
Dimensions
8.8 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
Weight
14.4 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7710987M
Internet Archive
interpretingpopu00brac
ISBN 10
0520225414
ISBN 13
9780520225411
LCCN
00042611
OCLC/WorldCat
44174261
Library Thing
2655967
Goodreads
427752

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In 1965, a recording by Gary Lewis and the Playboys, "This Diamond Ring," shot up the popularity charts shortly after its release, eventually reaching the number one position in February.
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In 1965, a recording by Gary Lewis and the Playboys, "This Diamond Ring," shot up the popularity charts shortly after its release, eventually reaching the number one position in February.
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