Expression in Pop/Rock Music

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Expression in Pop Rock Music, 2ndEdition, updates and enlarges a collection originally published as a library monograph by Garland in 2000. Since its publication, it has established itself as one of the best collections by the new generation of popular music scholars, and many have requested an edition priced for classroom use. This, plus the changes in pop music scholarship over the last half-decade, encouraged us to request that the editor prepare a new edition.The changing world of the pop music scene calls for a new look at how we analyze and enjoy popular music. Over the past five years, rap has solidified itself as the dominant pop genre, with country continuing to sell in numbers as strong as - if not stronger than mainstream pop. Recognizing these changes, the authors will add analysis of rap and country to their discussion of rock and pop. Plus, they will broaden their enquiry to include socio-critical approaches that have increasingly become important in the popular music studies field.The topics covered are broad and inclusive, from Frank Zappa to jazz-rock, to U2, to Shania Twain, to the methodologies of criticism and analysis of popular music itself. The contributors reads like a veritable "Who's Who" list of leading pop music scholars, including the editor himself, author of two best-selling analyses of the music of the Beatles; Susan Fast, whose study of Led Zeppelin is considered a new classic; Nadine Hubbs, who recently published a controversial book on gender in American classical music; Jocelyn R. Neal, a leading scholar of country music; and Albin Zak, author of one of the best analyses of rock music published.Expression in Pop Rock Music, 2ndEdition, should find readership among students and scholars of popular music, as well as course adoption in upper level seminars on popular music, as well as secondary use in more introductory courses.