Over and Over

Olivier Julien is a lecturer in the history and musicology of popular music at Paris-Sorbonne University, France.Christophe Levaux is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liège, Belgium.

• List of Abbreviations and ContractionsList of Musical Examples, Figures, and TablesAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsPrefaceAntoine Hennion (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, France)Introduction: Play It Again (and Again), SamOlivier Julien (Paris-Sorbonne University, France) and Christophe Levaux (University of Liège, Belgium)Part I: Repetition as an aesthetic disposition1. When the Music stutters: Notes toward a SymptomatologyRobert Fink (University of California, Los Angeles, Herb Alpert School of Music, USA)2. Time and Time Again: Repetition and Difference in Repetitive MusicAnne Danielsen (University of Oslo, Norway)3. Towards an Alternative History of Repetitive Audio TechnologiesChristophe Levaux (University of Liège, Belgium)Part II: Issues of perception4. Loops, Memories and MeaningsChris Cutler (Independent Scholar)5. Machine Possession: Dancing to Repetitive BeatsHillegonda C. Rietveld (London South Bank University, UK)6. Repetition and Musical Meaning: Anaphonic Perspective in Connection with the Sonic Experience of Everyday LifeDanick Trottier (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)Part III: Repetition as a structuring device7. From “Sectional Refrains” to Repeated Verses: The Rise of the AABA FormOlivier Julien (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)8. Standard Jazz Harmony and the Constraints of Hypermeter: Some Thoughts on Regular and Irregular RepetitionKeith Salley (The Shenandoah Conservatory, USA) and Daniel T. Shanahan (Louisiana State University, USA)9. A Psychological Perspective on Repetition in Popular MusicTrevor de Clercq (Middle Tennessee State University, USA) and Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis (University of Arkansas, USA)ReferencesIndex

A critically important work of outstanding collective scholarship … Very highly recommended for college and university library Musicology collections.