Author: John Covach
Publisher:
ISBN: 0393639126
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Page: 640
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What s that Sound
What s that Sound
The Second Edition of What s That Sound? offers a balanced, insightful look at the evolution of rock music from its roots to the present."
Author: John Rudolph Covach
Publisher:
ISBN: 039393229X
Category: Rock music
Page: 0
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The Second Edition of What s That Sound? offers a balanced, insightful look at the evolution of rock music from its roots to the present."The Rock History Reader
He is also the co-author, with Andrew Flory, of What's That Sound?: An Introduction to Rock and its History, Fifth Edition (New York: W.W. Norton, 2018). 70 A Response to “Why no Yes in the Rock.
Author: Theo Cateforis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781315394800
Category: Music
Page: 464
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This eclectic compilation of readings tells the history of rock as it has been received and explained as a social and musical practice throughout its six decade history. This third edition includes new readings across the volume, with added material on the early origins of rock 'n' roll as well as coverage of recent developments, including the changing shape of the music industry in the twenty-first century. With numerous readings that delve into the often explosive issues surrounding censorship, copyright, race relations, feminism, youth subcultures, and the meaning of musical value, The Rock History Reader continues to appeal to scholars and students from a variety of disciplines. New to the third edition: Nine additional chapters from a broad range of perspectives Explorations of new media formations, industry developments, and the intersections of music and labor For the first time, a companion website providing users with playlists of music referenced in the book Featuring readings as loud, vibrant, and colorful as rock ‘n’ roll itself, The Rock History Reader is sure to leave readers informed, inspired, and perhaps even infuriated—but never bored.Media Narratives in Popular Music
What's That Sound? An Introduction to Rock and Its History, 5th edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Cross, Alan. 1997. Over the Edge: The Revolution and Evolution of New Rock. Scarborough, ON: Prentice Hall Canada. Dennis, Felix.
Author: Chris Anderton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 9781501357282
Category: Music
Page: 256
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The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed. It considers the typically linear narratives that are based on simplifications, exaggerations, and omissions and the histories they construct - an approach that leads to totalizing “official” histories that reduce otherwise messy narratives to one-dimensional interpretations of a heroic and celebratory nature. This book questions the basis on which these mediated histories are constructed, highlights other, hidden, histories that have otherwise been neglected, and explores a range of topics including consumerism, the production pressure behind documentaries, punk fanzines, Rolling Stones covers, and more.Form As Harmony in Rock Music
In Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music, ed. Mark Spicer and John Covach, 1–17. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Covach, John. 2018. What's That Sound? An Introduction to Rock and Its History, 5th ed.
Author: Drew Nobile
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780190948351
Category: Music
Page: 297
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"There's a moment in Janis Joplin's rendition of "Piece of My Heart" that anyone who has heard the song even once will recall vividly. I'm referring of course to Joplin's explosive cry of "take it!" about a minute in, right at the beginning of the chorus. This moment seems to embody all of rock's essential elements: freedom, power, personal expression, heartache, rebellion, etc. But that moment, iconic as it is, is more than a moment. Its strength is completely lost if we remove it from its musical context. Imagine playing someone just that second or two of music and expecting an emotional reaction you will more likely be met with bewilderment than excitement. The powerful effect of Joplin's cry derives as much from the material surrounding it as from what happens at that particular point in time. To understand that moment we must therefore consider it in relation to the song's organization as a whole. That central question how a song is organized in time underlies the concept of musical form. Form is often presented in opposition to content, the latter referring to more tangible musical elements such as notes and rhythms. The two are not so easily separated, though; as the "Piece of My Heart" example attests, we perceive content through the lens of form, each moment's meaning dependent on its role within the song's temporal organization. Music builds its communicative capacity upon its formal foundation; studying form is thus not a matter of zooming in on one particular musical aspect, but rather sets the stage for understanding all of a song's various expressive elements. Form, in other words, is the gateway to interpretation. This book offers a comprehensive theory of form in rock music. My basic premise is that rock songs are cohesive entities, gradually unfolding through time a unified musical structure. Their formal components are not merely discrete elements arranged in succession but interdependent, dialogic utterances, each fulfilling a particular role in relation to the whole. Seen this way, rock form is inherently a process, an active, temporal journey, not a series of musical containers; "a self-realizing verb, unspooling itself through time, not a static noun," as James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy put it (2006, 616). In other words, form is something a song does, not something it is. A conception of form as process underlies much contemporary discussion of classical form (Schmalfeldt 2011, Hepokoski and Darcy 2006, Caplin 1998); discussions of form in rock, though, tend toward an object-oriented approach, focusing on dividing a song into labeled sections rather than describing its temporal development.1 Rock-oriented studies that reflect a more processual approach, such as Robin Attas's 2015 article on buildup introductions and Allan Moore's 2012 monograph Song Means, generally eschew large-scale thinking in favour of moment-to-moment interpretations; Moore specifically states that he \see[s] little to be gained from [discussing more global formal terms] . . . it implies a `god's-eye perspective,' which does not seem to be part of the popular song experience, where what matters is exactly where one is at a particular point in time" (84). I do not believe a focus on process is incompatible with large-scale thinking, though. My aim in this book is to bring a process-based approach to the study of rock's large-scale structures"--Metaldata
See also John Covach and Andrew Flory, What's That Sound? An Introduction to Rock and Its History, 5th ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2018), 300. 9. Robert Walser, “Black Sabbath,” Grove Music Online, accessed 26 June 2020, ...
Author: Sonia Archer-Capuzzo
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 9780895798923
Category: Reference
Page: 210
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Metaldata: A Bibliography of Heavy Metal Resources is the first book-length bibliography of resources about heavy metal. From its beginnings in the late 1960s and early 1970s, heavy metal has emerged as one of the most consistently popular and commercially successful music styles. Over the decades the style has changed and diversified, drawing attention from fans, critics, and scholars alike. Scholars, journalists, and musicians have generated a body of writing, films, and instructional materials that is substantial in quantity, diverse in approach, and intended for many types of audiences, resulting in a wealth of information about heavy metal. Metaldata provides a current and comprehensive bibliographic resource for researchers and fans of metal. This book also serves as a guide for librarians in their collection development decisions. Chapters focus on performers, musical instruction, discographies, metal subgenres, metal in specific places, and research relating metal to the humanities and sciences, and encompass archives, books, articles, videos, websites, and other resources by scholars, journalists, musicians, and fans of this vibrant musical style.Performing Popular Music
What's That Sound?: An Introduction to Rock and Its History. 5th ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. DiCola, Peter. “Money from Music: Survey Evidence on Musicians' Revenue and Lessons About Copyright Incentives.
Author: David Cashman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780429012662
Category: Music
Page: 198
View: 557
This book explores the fundamentals of popular music performance for students in contemporary music institutions. Drawing on the insights of performance practice research, it discusses the unwritten rules of performances in popular music, what it takes to create a memorable performance, and live popular music as a creative industry. The authors offer a practical overview of topics ranging from rehearsals to stagecraft, and what to do when things go wrong. Chapters on promotion, recordings, and the music industry place performance in the context of building a career. Performing Popular Music introduces aspiring musicians to the elements of crafting compelling performances and succeeding in the world of today’s popular music.We Didn t Start the Fire
... a spoken introduction to the song “Growin' Up.” 42. Joe Smith, Off the Record: An Oral History of Popular Music, ed. ... What's That Sound? An Introduction to Rock and Its History, 5th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2018.
Author: Ryan Raul Bañagale
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781793601827
Category: Music
Page: 261
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Billy Joel has sold over 150 million records, produced thirty-three Top-40 hits, received six Grammy Awards, and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fans celebrate him, critics deride him, and scholars have all but ignored him. This first-of-its-kind collection of essays offers close analysis and careful insight into the ways his work has impacted popular music during the last fifty years. Using diverse approaches, this volume serves as a model for how any scholar can approach the study of popular music. Ultimately, these chapters interrogate how popular music frames our experiences, constitutes our history and culture, and gains importance in our daily lives.Music A Very Short Introduction
... and John Covach and Andrew Florey , What's That Sound ? An Introduction to Rock and its History , 5th edn ( New York : Norton , 2018 ) . Approachable introductions to Western music are Howard Goodall's The Story of Music ( London ...
Author: Nicholas Cook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191038952
Category: Music
Page: 160
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The world teems with different kinds of music - traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop - and each type of music tends to come with its own way of thinking. Drawing on a wealth of accessible examples ranging from Beethoven to Chinese zither music, this Very Short Introduction considers the history of music and thinking about music, focussing on its social and cultural dimensions. Nicholas Cook balances the Western Classical traditions within the context of many other musical cultures in today's world, tracing the way in which their development since the eighteenth century has conditioned present-day thinking and practice both within and beyond the West. He also considers the nature of music as a real-time performance practice; the role of music in contexts of social and political action; and the nature of musical thinking, including the roles played in it by instruments, notations, and creative imagination. In this new edition Cook explores the impact of digital technology on the production and consumption of music, including how it has transformed participatory music-making and the music business. He also discusses music's position in a globalized world, from the role it played in historical processes of colonisation and decolonisation to its present-day significance as a vehicle of cross-cultural communication. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.