New Book: Analysing Popular Music

David Machin's Analysing Popular Music publishes later this month.

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book233323&

If you’d like to see an inspection copy for teaching or a review copy for a journal, let me know. I hope you find it useful.

Analysing Popular Music
Image, Sound and Text
David Machin

A definitive guide to issues of textual analysis, representation and semiotics in popular music. Informed, instructive and refreshingly accessible; it boasts a host of original examples, exercises and invaluable resources” - Bill Osgerby, London Metropolitan University

“David Machin has the gift of explaining complex ideas in clear and direct language that will engage students and enrich their experience of music” - Theo Van Leeuwen, University of Technology Sydney

“A comprehensive and innovative addition to the literature on the analysis of popular music. Scholars and students will find this an essential reference text for future work” - Brian Longhurst, University of Salford

“David Machin's book will be invaluable for anyone who wants to systematically analyse the way that popular music is meaningful in the media. He provides clear, accurate, explanations of the ideas of other writers, and sets out helpful approaches to analysing popular music as a modern form of visual and sound communication. The book will now be on my recommended reading lists for both undergraduate and postgraduate students”  - Tim Wall, Birmingham City University

Contents:

Introduction
Discourses of popular music
Album Iconography: Postures, Objects, Settings
Visual Composition: Typeface and Colour
Analysing Lyrics: Values, Participants, Agency
Semiotic Resources in Sound: Pitch, Melody and Phrasing
Sound Qualities: Arrangement and Rhythm
Analysing Genre: The Sounds of Britpop
Analysing Music in Film
Analysing Music in Video and Television
Glossary

Best,

Michael Ainsley