Analyzing Recorded Music

Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks

Lori Burns editor Mike Alleyne editor William Moylan editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:29th Dec '22

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Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks is a collection of essays dedicated to the study of recorded popular music, with the aim of exploring "how the record shapes the song" (Moylan, Recording Analysis, 2020) from a variety of perspectives. Introduced with a Foreword by Paul Théberge, the distinguished editorial team has brought together a group of reputable international contributors to write about a rich collection of recordings.

Examining a diverse set of songs from a range of genres and points in history (spanning the years 1936–2020), the authors herein illuminate unique attributes of the selected tracks and reveal how the recording develops the expressive content of song performance.

Analyzing Recorded Music will interest all those who study popular music, cultural studies, and the musicology of record production, as well as popular music listeners.

2023 Winner of the Society for Music Theory Award for Outstanding Multi-Author Collection

'Moylan’s analytical framework provides a flexible yet coherent structure for this wonderfully eclectic and useful collection. Analyses of the recorded ‘texts’ of popular music are woven together with the ethnography of practice and cultural theory to provide an excellent range of case studies which, when combined, also provide a unifying methodology for future work.'

Simon Zagorski-Thomas, University of West London

'This essential collection beautifully illustrates how close sonic analysis can feed interpretations that skillfully enlighten how music impacts, and is in constant dialogue with, cultural, social, aesthetic, historical, technological, and other fundamental aspects of our lives. It makes us better understand why we love music so much.'

Serge Lacasse, Laval University

'In this expansive edited volume, Moylan, Burns & Alleyne invite a broad range of engineers, historians, theorists, and analysts to apply Moylan’s listening approach (2020) to a specific track within the history of recorded popular music. Analyzing Recorded Music provides a rich and diverse addition to any musical bookshelf for readers who seek to understand the interconnected elements and conditions that contribute to the creation of a recording.'

Paul Thompson, Leeds Beckett University

'We have thankfully arrived at a moment in the history of serious musical scholarship when the implements and artistry of the recording studio are understood to be as central to the creation of music as are the traditional considerations of pitches, harmonies, rhythms, song forms and "traditional" musical instruments. Mike Alleyne, Lori Burns and William Moylan have assembled an excellent collection of essays that will force and inspire music scholars across genres to come to terms with the ways our soundscape has been not only mediated, but shaped, by the creativity and ingenuity of the recording studio. The essays here span the analog and digital eras, brilliantly summarizing the interplay of studio technologies, aesthetics, histories and identities at the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.'

Michael Veal, Yale University

ISBN: 9780367546328

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 880g

416 pages