Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
List of Figures and Examples
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword by Paul Théberge
Disclaimer and Credits
Introduction: Analyzing and Interpreting Recorded Song Tracks
SECTION I: Musical Genre, Culture, and Technology
	1. “I Been Studying Rain”: What do We Hear When We Listen to the Blues of Robert Johnson? (“Preachin’ Blues,” 1936)
	2. Analyzing Hip-Hop Hacktivism and Automobility in Injury Reserve’s (2019) “Jailbreak the Tesla” (feat. Aminé)
SECTION II: Track Revelations and Aural Mirrors
	3. Hearing through the Grapevine: Marvin Gaye, Norman Whitfield, and the Long Journey of Motown’s Biggest Hit, “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” (1968)
	4. “Let the Music Play” (1975): Hearing the Disco Mainstream in Barry White
	5. Reaching for Stardom: Live and Studio Sound in Prince’s “Purple Rain” (1984)
SECTION III: Layers Make the Record
	6. “In a Sky Full of People”: Spatial and Cinematic Staging in Seal’s “Crazy” (1990)
	7. Come Together: Feeling the Distemper of Murk and Elation with the Beatles (1969) and with Sheila E. and Ringo Starr (2017; 2020)
	8. “A Tsunami of Voices”: 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love” (1975)
	9. Counterpoint and Expression in the Music of U2: “Gloria” (1981)
SECTION IV: Sonic Journeys
	10. On the Structure of Feeling in Bob Dylan’s “I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You” (2020)
	11. “You Never Give Me Your Money”: The Abbey Road Medley (1969)
	12. Listening Beyond the Record: The Judds’ “John Deer Tractor” (1984)
SECTION V: Sampling and Reframing
	13. Sonic Materiality and Boom-Bap Embodiment in Conway’s “Biscotti Biscuit” (2018): An Autoethnography of Recording Analysis
	14. “It Ain’t But One Kind of Blues”: Kid Koala’s Bluesy Embrace of the Fragmented (“1 bit Blues,” 2012)
	15. “Three and a Half Minutes of Attitude”: Vocal Delivery, Groove, and Production in Azealia Banks’ “212” (2014)
SECTION VI: Deconstructing the Mix and Production Process
	16. Can You Hear the Thunder?: The Tech-Processual Construction of Environmental and Emotional Situ in Ghost’s “Cirice” (2015)
	17. Three-Dimensional Doom: My Dying Bride’s “Your Broken Shore” (2020)
	18. Transforming a Pop Song: The Journey of the Extended Club Remix (Taz Vegas’ “Am I Dreaming,” 2019)
SECTION VII: Voicing Identity through Genre
	19. Framing the Female Voice in Doom Metal: Compositional and Sonic Elements in The Gathering’s “Strange Machines” (Mandylion, 1995)
	20. Masking: Queer Aesthetics and Production Tricks in Orville Peck’s “Hope to Die” (2019)
	21. “What Are You Gonna Tell Her?” (2020): Mickey Guyton’s Advocacy and Protest for Equality in Country Music
	22. Form, Genre, and Vocal Performance in Nicki Minaj’s “Stupid Hoe” (2011)
	23. Tracks and Transformations in the Wailers’ “Concrete Jungle” (1973)
Index