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The Rock Instrumentarium
Well, we have spent the last few weeks going through all of the proof edits for the Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research, including an enormous bibliography and an even larger index of close to 9000 words. Despite the various … Continue reading
Posted in Bloomsbury Rock
Tagged Allan Moore, Bass, Bloomsbury, Drums, guitar, paul carr, Rock Music, Rock Music Research, Steve Waksman
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The Definition of ‘Rock’ and Stylistic Overlaps
The third essay of the Bloomsbury Handbook of rock music Research is provided by Taylor Myers and Brad Osborn, who initially examine the music theory, musicological and cultural studies literature that has emerged relating to rock scholarship over the last … Continue reading
Posted in Musicology
Tagged Aborescent, Allan Moore, musicology, paul carr, Rhizomatic, rock analysis
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock: Writing About Rock
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research is now in the ‘post proof’ stage, with the publishers getting back with their various tweaks and suggestions. So I have just spent the day responding to 33 authors, who will soon be … Continue reading
Posted in Musicology
Tagged Allan Moore, Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock, paul carr, rock analysis, Sarah Hill
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Psycoanalytic Approaches to Analysis and Musical Taste
As anyone who has read this blog will know, I have developed an ongoing interest in the ways in which music conveys meaning over the last few years. This has resulted in considering many academics’ thoughts – ranging from philosophers … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Music, Musicology, philosophy
Tagged Allan Moore, Celine Deon, Frank Zappa, Hermann Von Helmholtz, Immanuel Kant, music meaning, musical pleasure, musical taste, musicology, on the sensation of tone, phil tagg, philosophy, philosophy in a new key, phycoanalytical approaches, PSYCOANALYTIC, sting, Susanne Langer
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More Analysis of Social Space: Sting’s Dead Mans Boots
Last weeks post commenced with a discussion of the ways in which the background of a musical mix can resonate with the persona in a song – describing it as ‘Inert’, ‘Active’ or ‘oppositional’ (I still need more examples of … Continue reading
Posted in Musicology, podcast
Tagged Allan Moore, analysis, Dead Mans Boots, musicology, paul carr, Song Means, sting, The Last Ship
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Modern Uses of The Soundbox: Examples of Triangular Mixes
Today in my musicology session – we discussed a few ways in which a musical mix can be analyzed. It started by suggesting the following factors as a way to consider recorded sound. ¨Listen closely for the relationships between instruments … Continue reading
Posted in Musicology
Tagged Allan Moore, Cluster, Diagonal mix, musicology, paul carr, Ruth Dockaway, The soundbox, Triangular mix
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