The Beatles And Vocal Expression

Author : Bláithín Duggan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003808042
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beatles and Vocal Expression written by Bláithín Duggan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beatles and Vocal Expression examines popular song through the topic of paralanguage – a sub-category of nonverbal communication that addresses characteristics of speech that modify meaning and convey emotion. It responds to the general consensus regarding the limitations of Western art music notation to analyse popular song, assesses paralinguistic voice qualities giving rise to expressive tropes within and across songs, and lastly addresses gaps in existing Beatles scholarship. Taking The Beatles’ UK studio albums (1963–1970), paralinguistic voice qualities are examined in relation to concepts, characteristics, metaphors, and functions of paralanguage in vocal performance. Tropes, such as rising and falling intonation on words of woe, have historical connections to performative and conversational techniques. This interdisciplinary analysis is achieved through musicology, sound studies, applied linguistics, and cultural history. The new methodology locates paralinguistic voice qualities in recordings, identifies features, shows functions, and draws aural threads within and across popular songs.

Author : Walter Everett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195141054
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beatles as Musicians written by Walter Everett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive, chronologically-ordered study of every aspect of the musical life of the Beatles - composition, performance, recording and reception histories - from the group's beginnings in 1956 through to 1965.

Author : Mark Osteen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472124846
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beatles through a Glass Onion written by Mark Osteen and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known as the White Album, has always been viewed as an oddity in the group’s oeuvre. Many have found it to be inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The Beatles through a Glass Onion is the first-ever scholarly volume to explore this seminal recording at length, bringing together contributions by some of the most eminent scholars of rock music writing today. It marks a reconsideration of this iconic but under-appreciated recording and reaffirms the White Album’s significance in the Beatles’ career and in rock history. This volume treats the White Album as a whole, with essays scrutinizing it from a wide range of perspectives. These essays place the album within the social and political context of a turbulent historical moment; locate it within the Beatles’ lives and careers, taking into consideration the complex personal forces at play during the recording sessions; investigate the musical as well as pharmaceutical influences on the record; reveal how it reflects new developments in the Beatles’ songwriting and arranging; revisit the question of its alleged disunity; and finally, track its legacy and the breadth of its influence on later rock, pop, and hip-hop artists. The Beatles through a Glass Onion features the scholarship of Adam Bradley, Vincent Benitez, Lori Burns, John Covach, Walter Everett, Michael Frontani, Steve Hamelman, Ian Inglis, John Kimsey, Mark Osteen, Russell Reising, Stephen Valdez, Anthony D. Villa, Kenneth Womack, and Alyssa Woods. John Covach’s Afterword summarizes the White Album’s lasting impact and value. The Beatles through a Glass Onion represents a landmark work of rock music scholarship. It will prove to be an essential and enduring contribution to the field.

Author : Kenneth Womack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052186965X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles written by Kenneth Womack and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Please Please Me to Abbey Road - the fascinating story of the Fab Four's creation, works, and enduring musical legacy.

Author : Mark Lewisohn
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1101903295
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tune In written by Mark Lewisohn and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, Tune In is the New York Times bestseller by the world’s leading Beatles authority – the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy about the band that revolutionized music. The Beatles have been in our lives for half a century and surely always will be. Still, somehow, their music excites, their influence resonates, their fame sustains. New generations find and love them, and while many other great artists come and go, the Beatles are beyond eclipse. So . . . who really were these people, and just how did it all happen? 'The Beatles story' is everywhere. Told wrong from early on, rehashed in every possible way and routinely robbed of its context, this is a phenomenon in urgent need of a bright new approach. In his series All These Years, Mark Lewisohn – the world-recognized Beatles historian – presses the Refresh button to relate the entire story as it’s never been told or known before. Here is a full and accurate biography at last. It is certain to become the lasting word. Tune In is book one of three, exploring and explaining a period that is by very definition lesser-known: the formative pre-fame years, the teenage years, the Liverpool and Hamburg years – in many ways the most absorbing and incredible period of them all. The Beatles come together here in all their originality, attitude, style, speed, charisma, appeal, daring and honesty, the tools with which they’re about to reshape the world. It’s the Beatles in their own time, an amazing story of the ultimate rock band, a focused and colorful telling that builds and builds to leave four sharp lads from Liverpool on the very brink of a whole new kind of fame. Using impeccable research and resources, Tune In is a magisterial work, an independent biography that combines energy, clarity, objectivity, authority and insight. The text is anti-myth, tight and commanding – just like the Beatles themselves. Here is the Beatles story as it really was. Throw away what you think you know and start afresh.

Author : Matthew Jones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040043550
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Make Music in an Epidemic written by Matthew Jones and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines responses to the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Anglophone popular musicians and music video during the AIDS crisis (1981–1996). Through close reading of song lyrics, musical texts, and music videos, this book demonstrates how music played an integral part in the artistic-activist response to the AIDS epidemic, demonstrating music as a way to raise money for HIV/AIDS services, to articulate affective responses to the epidemic, to disseminate public health messages, to talk back to power, and to bear witness to the losses of AIDS. Drawing methodologies from musicology, queer theory, critical race studies, public health, and critical theory, the book will be of interest to a wide readership, including artists, activists, musicians, historians, and other scholars across the humanities as well as to people who lived through the AIDS crisis.

Author : Shane Homan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040031145
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interrogating Popular Music and the City written by Shane Homan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does popular music influence the culture and reputation of a city, and what does a city do to popular music? Interrogating Popular Music and the City examines the ways in which urban environments and music cultures intersect in various locales around the globe. Music and cities have been partners in an often clumsy, sometimes accidental but always exciting dance. Heritage and immigration, noise and art, policy and politics are some of the topics that are addressed in this critical examination of relationships between cities and music. The book draws upon an international array of researchers, encompassing hip hop in Beijing; the city favelas of Brazil; from Melbourne bars to European parliaments; to heritage and tourism debates in Salzburg and Manchester. In doing so, it interrogates the different agendas of audiences, musicians and policy-makers in distinct urban settings.

Author : Jacob Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520254945
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vocal Tracks written by Jacob Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining and innovative book focuses on vocal performance styles that developed in tandem with the sound technologies of the photograph, radio, and sound film. It looks at these media technologies and industries through the lens of performance, bringing to light a nexus of performer, technology, and audience.

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Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780757922992
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guitar Expressions Teacher Edition, Vol 2 written by and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume of the 2-volume teacher edition set contains 54 complete lesson plans for 18 units of Guitar Expressions. Each lesson includes a Lesson Snapshot, Instructional Overview, a complete step-by-step lesson plan with embedded assessments. The book also includes reproducible student worksheets, assessments forms and student progress record, CDs containing complete instruction, demonstration, play-along, and additional listening tracks. Included are Bloom's Taxonomy Correlation, Assessment Overviews, and Core Thinking Overviews. Plus interactive Guitar Guru technology embedded on the included CD-ROM (included in Teacher ed. v. 2) allows students to use their computers to view animated fretboard displays of selected songs.

Author : Thomas Robinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315465280
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Music Theory and Analysis written by Thomas Robinson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Music Theory and Analysis: A Research and Information Guide uncovers the wealth of scholarly works dealing with the theory and analysis of popular music. This annotated bibliography is an exhaustive catalog of music-theoretical and musicological works that is searchable by subject, genre, and song title. It will support emerging scholarship and inquiry for future research on popular music.