Popular Music Analysis and Semiotics: Applications and Perspectives

• Authors: Conti Jacopo
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to introduce just a few of the characteristics of popular music analysis that can assist further development of the discipline even for non-musicologists. After an introduction on why music analysis and popular music analysis – considering music as ‘humanly organized sound’ – are not popular in popular music studies and why contemporary popular music scholars tend to concentrate more on paramusical and extramusical issues, this presentation will concentrate on: song structures – or, as Philip Tagg calls it, the diataxis – comparing the structures most used by the Beatles; the sound of voices; the sound-box and the aural staging; the musical synecdoche. The final aim of this paper is to state the importance of music in music studies: paramusical and extramusical aspects are essential to understand how music works and communicates, but music is important as well.

Keywords

EN

music analysis, popular music, music semiotics, song analysis, sound-box

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Załącznik Kulturoznawczy
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 7. Hitchcock - rozchylanie kurtyny / Badanie muzyki popularnej
• Pages: 211-224

Contributors

author

Conti Jacopo

• Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Turin

Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/zk.2020.7.09