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Christine Boone started the topic SOLICITING YOUR IDEAS! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years agoHi everyone! Your attendance and participation at our virtual session at SMT in November was much appreciated – I was overwhelmed with how smoothly everything went, with the superb presenters, and with the rich discussion.
So…IT’S TIME TO START BRAINSTORMING FOR NEXT YEAR!
Send me your ideas for a discussion/analysis panel! You can respond to…[Read more]
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Marcello Messina deposited Cartridge Music in the Quarantine: Presence, Absence, Contingency Setups and (De-)territorialised Performances in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 5 years agoBetween the end of May and the beginning of June, 2020, we performed individually, filmed, synced together, edited and presented a quarantine version of John Cage’s Cartridge Music. Uploaded on YouTube, the performance was broadcast on 1 June, as part of the 4th Research Colloquium of the Postgraduate Programme in Music of the Federal University o…[Read more]
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Marcello Messina deposited Editorial: Ubiquitous Music Making in COVID-19 Times in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 5 years agoPicture a world with no mobility. Planes are landed. Urban transportation stopped. Large gatherings are non-existent and everybody is at home. That’s 2020, today. Most countries have reduced social interactions to a minimum. Food markets, drugstores and gas stations remain open. But shopping malls, cinemas, coffee shops and pubs have closed t…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic Popular Music Interest Group Award Winners 2020 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThe SMT Popular Music Interest Group has two awards to recognize recent research in pop music. The Outstanding Publication Award was established in 2012, and exists to acknowledge the best article, essay, or book involving the theory and/or analysis of popular music by a senior scholar. Since 2013, the PMIG also grants the Adam Krims Award to a j…[Read more]
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Keith Salley started the topic Contour Segments in Pop? in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoHi everyone, hope you’re doing well.
I realize it may be too busy right now to expect replies, but I’ll try:
Does anyone know of any good examples from pop for teaching contour segments (csegs)? I’m teaching a kind of generalized hybridized ‘music after 1900’ course that combines pop, jazz, and Western art music (Wam). Wanted to try this topic,…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic Annual Meeting Details in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPlease tune in for the PMIG meeting during this year’s virtual AMS/SMT, and log back on for a virtual coffee break where we can socialize as a group!
Saturday, November 14
11:00 am-12:00 pm (CST)- Panel Discussion: “The Music of ‘Monstrous Men’: Negotiating Popular Music and the Musicians Who Make It”
- Panelists: Maya Gibson, Tanya Honerman,…
- Panel Discussion: “The Music of ‘Monstrous Men’: Negotiating Popular Music and the Musicians Who Make It”
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Megan Lavengood deposited Bespoke Music Theory: A Modular Core Curriculum Designed for Audio Engineers, Classical Violinists, and Everyone in Between in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoTraditional music theory curricula are increasingly scrutinized. Students regularly misunderstand the scope of epistemology and scope of theory, find theory intimidating and difficult, and fail to see its relevance to their career goals. In this essay, I outline a modular music theory curriculum, which works to address these negative perceptions…[Read more]
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Claire Arthur started the topic Survey about techniques and approaches to pop music analysis in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA graduate student of mine has been working on building a website for assisting pop music analysis. We have created a survey intended to garner some feedback about how different pop music scholars approach analysis so that we can gain some insights as to what would be valuable to the greatest number of individuals. The survey should take 5-15…[Read more]
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Claire Arthur started the topic Prototype of web-based tool for pop music analysis – feedback requested! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoA graduate student of mine has been working on building a website for assisting pop music analysis. We have created a survey intended to garner some feedback about how different pop music scholars approach analysis so that we can gain some insights as to what would be valuable to the greatest number of individuals. The survey should take 5-15…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic PMIG Awards – Nominations due TOMORROW! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoNominations DUE TOMORROW for the Pop Music Interest Group’s Outstanding Publication Award and the Adam Krims Award—click on these links to nominate. I encourage you to reflect on recent scholarship you’ve read that has positively impacted you. Self-nominations are especially encouraged! Note that to be eligible for an award, the publica…[Read more]
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Keith Salley replied to the topic Whole-tone and Octatonic in pop and rock in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group via email on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThanks, Walt!
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Walt Everett replied to the topic Readings in the Analysis of African-American Popular Music in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThanks to those with suggestions for my African American pop music course. I’ve finished drafting a 73-page syllabus with lengthy bib and tracklist that’s too large to attach here. Please email me at weverett at umich.edu [with @ for ” at “] and I’ll be happy to send you a copy.
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Walt Everett replied to the topic Whole-tone and Octatonic in pop and rock in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoKeith, my favorite rock octatonic passage is the guitars/bass trio in the transition of “You Never Give Me Your Money.”
There are a number of equal divisions of the octave, such as in the Fifth Dimension’s “Up—Up and Away,” the Doors’ “Touch Me” and Lorraine Feather’s “The Girl with the Lazy Eye.” I may list others in Foundations of Rock. Have fu…[Read more]
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Keith Salley started the topic Whole-tone and Octatonic in pop and rock in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoHi everyone,
Hope you’re all well and reasonably rested.
Was wondering about rock or general pop tunes that feature symmetrical/synthetic scales like WT and OCT. I don’t mind fleeting surface occurrences where the scales are just run through, like those WT scales in the intro to Stevie Wonder’s ‘You Are the Sunshine . . .’ or the recurring OCT…[Read more]
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Walt Everett replied to the topic Readings in the Analysis of African-American Popular Music in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agothanks, Beth–good to hear from you. My bib and listening guide is coming along by leaps and bounds, but I hadn’t come across that journal yet. I’ll put my syllabus up by the end of the month.
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John Covach deposited “The Performer’s Experience: Positional Listening and Positional Analysis,” in G. Borio, G. Gioriani, A. Cecchi, and M. Lutzu, eds. Investigating Music Performance: Theoretical Models and Intersections (Routledge, 2020), 56-68. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThis chapter presents an approach to musical listening and analysis that privileges the individual perspectives of performers in a rock ensemble. Using passages from Yes’s “And You And I,” this study examines how each musician hears the texture in different ways while each of these “positions” differs from the Ideal Listening Position, which is…[Read more]
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John Covach deposited “Popular Music in the Theory Classroom,” in The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, edited by Leigh VanHandel (Routledge, 2020), pp. 331-339. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThis chapter considers the role of popular music in the undergraduate music theory curriculum, proposing three models for integrating pop into theory teaching.
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John Covach deposited “Jimmy Miller, the Rolling Stones, and Beggars Banquet,” in “They Call My Name Disturbance”: Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Revolution, edited by Russell Reising (Routledge, 2020), pp. 19-25. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThis paper surveys the career of Jimmy Miller and explores his role as producer for the Rolling Stones, with particular emphasis on Beggars Banquet.
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Beth Hiser replied to the topic Readings in the Analysis of African-American Popular Music in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoHi Walt,
Not sure if you’re familiar with the Journal of Hip Hop Studies, but it’s a wonderful open-access, peer reviewed journal that you might find useful for your course.
Enjoy!
Beth
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