On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements

Nick Braae is an academic staff member in Music at the Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand.Kai Arne Hansen is Associate Professor of Music in the Department of Art and Cultural Studies, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.

• Introduction; Nick Braae and Kai Arne Hansen.- Section I: Broad Strokes.- 1. Scratching the Surface: Texts and Textures in Music Studies—or, Musicology without Music; Kyle Devine.- 2. From Music Analysis to Narrative Reading: A Case Study of Recorded Popular Song; Alex C. Harden.- 3. Kristeva and Popular Music; Nathan Wiseman-Trowse.- 4. The Shape of the Voice: Analyzing Vocal Gestures in Irish Traditional Music and Popular Song; Bláithín Duggan.- 5. It’s a Dark Philosophy: The Weeknd, Intermediality, and the Aestheticization of Provocative Themes; Kai Arne Hansen .- Section II: Second Takes.- 6. Treating Cultural Trauma with Music: The Representation of War in the Music of Bruce Springsteen; Susanna Välimäki.- 7. Linear Temporality in Popular Song; Nick Braae.- 8. “To Prepare a Face to Meet the Faces that you Meet”: The Instrumental Retrowave Persona; Andrei Sora.- 9. Electric Affinities: Wagner, Hendrix, and the Thingness of Sound; Erik Steinskog.- Section III: Entanglements.- 10. Timbre, Genre, and Polystylism in Video Game Music; Megan Lavengood.- 11. A Musical Exploration of Incongruity and its Humorous Effects; Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen.- 12. The Empowerment of the Listener in Kendrick Lamar’s “Backseat Freestyle”; Steven Gamble.- 13. Psychedelic Ways of Listening: A Gothic Case Study; Claire Rebecca Bannister.- 14. Taken by Strum: Ukulele Jamming as Musical Experience; Matthew Bannister.- Afterword; Allan F. Moore.