Expression in Pop-Rock Music

Walter Everett is Chair of the Department of Music Theory at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Beatles as Musicians: Quarry Men through Rubber Soul and Revolver through the Anthology.

• 1. The Musical World(s?) of Frank Zappa: Some Observations of his 'Crossover' Pieces 2. Frank Zappa’s 'The Black Page': A Case of Musical 'Conceptual Continuity' 3. Analytic Methodologies for Rock Music: Harmonic and Voice-Leading Strategies in Tori Amos's 'Crucify' 4. Jazz-Rock? Rock-Jazz? Stylistic Crossover in Late-1970s American Progressive Rock 5. Pitch Down the Middle 6. Music, Contexts, and Meaning in U2 7. From L’Étranger to 'Killing an Arab': Representing the Other in a Cure Song 8. The Imagination of Pop-Rock Criticism 9. Trapped within the Wheels: Flow and Repetition, Modernism and Tradition in Stevie Wonder’s 'Living for the City' 10. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy: Voice Leading, Tonal Structure, and the Theme of Self-Realization in the Music of Sarah McLachlan 11. Country-Pop Formulae and Craft: Shania Twain’s Crossover Appeal 12. Large-Scale Strategy and Compositional Design in the Early Music of Genesis 13. Rock and Roll Rhapsody: Pop Epics of the 1970s