Analyzing Popular Music: Popular music analysis: ten apothegms and four instances

摘要: About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorize; I well remember someone saying at this rate a man might as go into gravel-pit count the pebbles describe colours. How odd it is anyone should see all observation must be for or against some view if of any service! Introduction What exactly constitutes ‘analysis’ texts, performances discourses popular music too often goes without saying. Indeed, very idea musical analysis has been disparaged defended though inevitably implies deployment ready-made models had originally designed demonstrate supremacy German instrumental underlying coherence jarring modernisms. But basic questions analytical method deserve continually rethought, since interpreting texts activities upon which pleasures powers depend constitute one central studies. And yet appearing lately simply applies methods were developed different repertoires, explicit concern about fit.