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Jessica Narum uploaded the file: Narum Analysis of Popular Music Syllabus (Spr20) to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis undergraduate seminar focused on scholarly work by women and/or writings about music made by women. The syllabus includes the descriptions and grading rubrics for all assignments.
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Christine Boone started the topic Deadline Extended + Additional Info! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThe deadline for proposals has been extended until 11:59 EST on Sunday, June 14.
Please note – There has not been a decision on whether or not SMT will convene in person in Minneapolis this year. Regardless, this panel discussion WILL happen, either in person, via Zoom, or a hybrid of the two. Please don’t let uncertainties regarding travel stop…[Read more]
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Christine Boone replied to the topic CFP: Panel Discussion at AMS/SMT Minneapolis in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoDeadline Extended + Additional Info!
The deadline for proposals has been extended until 11:59 EST on Sunday, June 14.
Please note – There has not been a decision on whether or not SMT will convene in person in Minneapolis this year. Regardless, this panel discussion WILL happen, either in person, via Zoom, or a hybrid of the two. Please don’t…[Read more]
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Brad Osborn deposited The Frame and The Swerve: Music Video’s Relationship to Dance in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoA somewhat whimsical musing on music videos by Fall Out Boy and Beyoncé, all through the lens of Lucretius by way of John Rahn.
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Christine Boone started the topic CFP: Panel Discussion at AMS/SMT Minneapolis in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoAMS/SMT Minneapolis 2020:
Call for Participants in a Panel Discussion hosted by the Society for Music Theory’s Popular Music Interest Group
Panel Discussion: The Music of “Monstrous Men”: Negotiating Popular Music and the Musicians Who Make It.
While the “monstrous men” of the 2017 Paris Review article include artists of many ilks, the rec…[Read more]
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Brad Osborn deposited Content and Correlational Analysis of a Corpus of MTV-Promoted Music Videos Aired Between 1990 and 1999 in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoFrom 1990 to 1999 MTV promoted a series of 288 music videos called “Buzz Clips”, designed to highlight emerging artists and genres. Such promotion had a measurable impact on an artists’ earnings and record sales. To date, the kinds of musical and visual practices MTV promoted have not been quantitatively analyzed. Just what made some videos Buzzw…[Read more]
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Brad Osborn deposited Risers, Drops, and a Fourteen-Foot Cube: A Transmedia Analysis of Emil Nava, Calvin Harris, and Rihanna’s “This is What You Came For” in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoA consideration of 14 collaborative music videos by Emil Nava and Calvin Harris, closing with a close analysis of their work on Rihanna’s “This is What You Came For” (2016).
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Christine Boone replied to the topic Popular Music Interest Group Examples Database in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoHi Peter,
We’re going to send a message to the whole group, but I wanted to respond to you here first.
We write to you with bad news – the PMIG Examples Database Google Sheet has disappeared. Alyssa has been in touch with past officers and tried to recover it, but what appears to have happened is the owner of the sheet either deleted or closed…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood uploaded the file: Analysis of Popular Music Spring 2020 to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis is just the syllabus but the entire course can be viewed at http://popclass.meganlavengood.com
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Mark Anson-Cartwright replied to the topic Analysis of the bridge in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThanks to all of you—Keith, Christine, and David—for pointing out this literature to me. I will look into these leads.
Best,
Mark
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David Carson Berry replied to the topic Analysis of the bridge in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoHello Mark,
You might also check: John Graziano, Compositional Strategies in Popular Song Form of the Early Twentieth Century,” in A Music-Theoretical Matrix: Essays in Honor of Allen Forte (Part V), ed. David Carson Berry, Gamut 6/2 (2013): 95–131. It’s online.
As Graziano writes: “In this essay, I am interested in exploring the expansion of…[Read more]
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Christine Boone replied to the topic Analysis of the bridge in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoMark, there is a lot of stuff on form more generally, which may contain info about bridges within each article. (The only one I know entirely about the bridge is the one that Keith mentions above.) Check out the stuff on form in our bibliography: https://hcommons-staging.org/docs/popular-music-bibliography/
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Keith Salley replied to the topic Analysis of the bridge in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoHi Mark
The first thing that comes to mind is Steve Larson’s article “What Makes a Good Bridge,” from the Dutch Journal of Music Theory (8: 1–15). If memory serves, it explores ‘bridge’ as a metaphor, and uses Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm” as an example. Perhaps this isn’t the repertoire you’re really looking for, but it’s worth reading.
Best of luck.
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Peter Knapp replied to the topic Popular Music Interest Group Examples Database in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoHello! Inquiring if there has been any update on the examples database? Thank you for your work! Peter
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Mark Anson-Cartwright started the topic Analysis of the bridge in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoDear collective wisdom,
Can anyone recommend literature on the bridge in popular song form? I am thinking of analyses of specific songs, where the bridge (B section) might have some special relation to the A section, or articulate some significant climax, and so on. Thank you.
Mark Anson-Cartwright
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Sean Atkinson uploaded the file: Atkinson: Graduate Seminar – The Music of Billy Joel to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThis is a class designed for MM and DMA students (most are not music theory or composition majors) on the analysis of popular music with a focus on the music of Billy Joel. Most students will not have engaged in any popular music analysis before this course.
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Megan Lavengood started the topic New officers: Christine Boone, Chair; Matt Ferrandino, Secretary in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe results of our voting are in, and I’m very pleased to announce the results.
Our group approved the bylaws as they were drafted at the time of voting. I’ve attached a .pdf here, but you can also view and comment on the bylaws in the Docs tab. By no means are these bylaws perfect, and I highly encourage members and leadership alike to propose…[Read more]
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