Popular Music Studies Today: Proceedings of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music 2017

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Natural Highs: Timbre and Chills in Electronic Dance Music....Pages 11-23
The Monkey is Amused to Death: Roger Waters’ Masterpiece and its Commercial Failure....Pages 25-33
Popular Music Studies in the Context of Post-Communist Historiography in the Czech Republic....Pages 35-42
Popular Music Analysis and Social Semiotics: The Case of the Reggae Voice....Pages 43-52
The Presentation of the Self in the Popular Song....Pages 53-60
“Chinese Got Talent”: Popular Music Singing Competitions in Taiwan and China....Pages 61-65
Unpacking Performance in the Pop-Rock Biopic....Pages 67-74
From Earth Angel to Electric Lucifer: Castrati, Doo Wop and the Vocoder....Pages 75-83
Crowdfunding is Not for Everybody: Performance in the Art of Asking....Pages 85-95
When I’m (Not) ‘Ere....Pages 97-101
Binaurality, Stereophony, and Popular Music in the 1960s and 1970s....Pages 103-110
Adele’s Hello: Harmonic Ambiguity & Modal Inflection in Contemporary Pop....Pages 111-118
Mapping Popular Music Studies in Turkey Onto Studies in the Anglophone World....Pages 119-128
Power and Resistance in Iranian Popular Music....Pages 129-138
‘Gear Acquisition Syndrome’ – A Survey of Electric Guitar Players....Pages 139-148
Performing Disorder....Pages 149-158
From Psychedelia to Djent – Progressive Genres as a Paradox of Pop Culture....Pages 159-167
The Resonances of Political Disputes in Hong Kong China – Case Studies of Canto-pop....Pages 169-175
African Manifestations in Brazil: The Crioula Drum Dance....Pages 177-185
Shaping the pancadão: Improvisation and Studio Creativity on Rio Funk Independent Recordings from the Early 1990s....Pages 187-201
“What Difference Does it Make?” Studying Urban Popular Music from Before the Generalization of the Gramophone: The Example of the First World War Repertoire....Pages 203-212
Hearing Sexism – Analyzing Discrimination in Sound....Pages 213-223
Genre Modulation as Sectional Divider....Pages 225-234
Groenemeyer – A Case Study on Situative Singing Styles....Pages 235-241
The Music of Samba Schools: A Challenge for Popular Music Studies....Pages 243-252
Who said we were over it? On Nationalist Nostalgia and a Specter Haunting Europe: Popular Music and the Melancholic Presence of the Past....Pages 253-260
What Lessons can Higher Popular Music Education Learn from Art School Pedagogy?....Pages 261-270
Global Patchbay: Developing Popular Music Expertise Through International Collaboration....Pages 271-280
Musicology of Listening – New Ways to Hear and Understand the Musical Past....Pages 281-289
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