Listening to Popular Music

Theodore Gracyk

• Hardcover | Tracking Pop
• It's long been assumed that people who prefer Led Zeppelin to Mozart live aesthetically impoverished lives. But why? Written by an award-winning popul... Lees meer

Queer Voices in Hip Hop

Lauron J Kehrer

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracking Pop
• Notions of hip hop authenticity, as expressed both within hip hop communities and in the larger American culture, rely on the construction of the rapp... Lees meer

I Hear a Symphony

Andrew Flory

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• I Hear a Symphony opens new territory in the study of Motown's legacy, arguing that the music of Motown was indelibly shaped by the ideals of Detroit'... Lees meer

Critical Excess

J Griffith Rollefson

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracking Pop
• Jay-Z and Kanye West's 2011 Watch the Throne is a self-avowed "luxury rap" album centered on Eurocentric conceptions of nobility, artistry, and haute ... Lees meer

I Hear a Symphony

Andrew Flory

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracking Pop
• I Hear a Symphony opens new territory in the study of Motown's legacy, arguing that the music of Motown was indelibly shaped by the ideals of Detroit'... Lees meer

Queer Voices in Hip Hop

Lauron J Kehrer

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• Notions of hip hop authenticity, as expressed both within hip hop communities and in the larger American culture, rely on the construction of the rapp... Lees meer

Are We Not New Wave?

Theodore Cateforis

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• The definitive musical and cultural history of new wave music Lees meer

Uncharted

Bill Bruford

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• What do expert drummers do? Why do they do it? Is there anything creative about it? If so, how might that creativity inform their practice and that of... Lees meer

I Don't Sound Like Nobody

Albin Zak

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• "In Albin J. Zak III's highly original study, phonograph records are not just the medium for disseminating songs but musical works unto themselves. Fa... Lees meer

Soda Goes Pop

Joanna K Love

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• From its 1939 "Nickel, Nickel" jingle to pathbreaking collaborations with Michael Jackson and Madonna to its pair of X Factor commercials in 2011 and ... Lees meer

Sounding Out Pop

John Covach, Mark Spicer

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracking Pop
• A variety of approaches are brought to bear on fascinating repertoire, but with the underlying aim of better understanding some brilliant music. There... Lees meer

Uncharted

Bill Bruford

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracking Pop
• What do expert drummers do? Why do they do it? Is there anything creative about it? If so, how might that creativity inform their practice and that of... Lees meer

Are We Not New Wave?

Theodore Cateforis

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracking Pop
• "Are We Not New Wave? is destined to become the definitive study of new wave music." --Mark Spicer, coeditor of Sounding Out Pop New wave emerged at t... Lees meer

Good Vibrations

Philip Lambert

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracking Pop
• Good Vibrations brings together scholars with a variety of expertise, from music to cultural studies to literature, to assess the full extent of the c... Lees meer

Sounding Out Pop

John Covach, Mark Spicer

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• "A variety of approaches are brought to bear on fascinating repertoire, but with the underlying aim of better understanding some brilliant music. Ther... Lees meer

Critical Excess

J Griffith Rollefson

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• Jay-Z and Kanye West's 2011 Watch the Throne is a self-avowed "luxury rap" album centered on Eurocentric conceptions of nobility, artistry, and haute ... Lees meer

Soul Music

Joel Rudinow

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• "Exceptionally illuminating and philosophically sophisticated." ---Ted Cohen, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago "In this audacious and lo... Lees meer

Hearing Harmony

Christopher Doll

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• Hearing Harmony offers a listener-based, philosophical-psychological theory of harmonic effects for Anglophone popular music since the 1950s. It begin... Lees meer

Here for the Hearing

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracking Pop
• This book offers a series of essays that show the integrated role that musical structure (including harmony, melody, rhythm, meter, form, and musical ... Lees meer

Rhymin' and Stealin'

Justin A Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• Rhymin' and Stealin' begins with a crucial premise: the fundamental element of hip-hop culture and aesthetics is the overt use of preexisting material... Lees meer

I Don't Sound Like Nobody

Albin Zak

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracking Pop
• "In Albin J. Zak III's highly original study, phonograph records are not just the medium for disseminating songs but musical works unto themselves. Fa... Lees meer

Powerful Voices

Joshua S Duchan

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Pop
• Collegiate a cappella, part of a long tradition of unaccompanied singing, is known to date back on American college campuses to at least the colonial ... Lees meer