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Analyzing Popular Music.(Vernacular Musics)(Book Review)

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Analyzing Popular Music. Edited by Allan F. Moore. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. [ix, 279 p. ISBN 0-521-77120 X. $60.] Music examples, analytical charts, bibliography, discography, index.

With this ten-essay volume, editor Allan Moore can be proud of a significant contribution to the field of popular music analysis, a field that is enjoying a period of burgeoning development in both the U.K. and North America. There now exist a growing cohort of scholars whose principal musical preoccupation is the close consideration of analytic methods and interpretive frameworks for popular music. The articles in this volume demonstrate that popular ...

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