Evan Ware
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John Covach deposited “Echolyn and American Progressive Rock,” in Covach and Everett, eds., American Rock and the Classical Music Tradition, a special issue of Contemporary Music Review, 18/4 (August 2000): 13-61. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAn examination of American progressive rock in the 1980s and 90s.
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John Covach deposited “We Can Work It Out: Musical Analysis and Rock Music,” in Will Straw, Stacey Johnson, Rebecca Sullivan, and Paul Friedlander, eds., Popular Music—Style and Identity (Montreal: The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions, 1995): 69a-71a. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAn essay addressing methods of analyzing rock music within the disciplinary context of popular music studies in the 1990s.
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John Covach deposited “We Won’t Get Fooled Again: Rock Music and Musical Analysis,” reprinted and updated in Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology 5 (2005), 225-46. Originally appeared in In Theory Only 13/1-4 (1997): 119-41; and in A. Kassabian, D. Schwarz, and L. Siegel, eds., Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture (University Press of Virginia, 1997), 75-89. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAn essay considering the relationship between musical analysis and popular music studies in the disciplinary context of the mid 1990s.
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John Covach deposited “Popular Music, Unpopular Musicology,” in N. Cook and M. Everist, eds., Rethinking Music (Oxford University Press, 1999), 452-70. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoA discussion of the relationship of popular music within the context of musical scholarship.
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John Covach deposited “Stylistic Competencies, Musical Humor, and ‘This is Spinal Tap,’“ in E. Marvin and R. Hermann, eds., Concert Music, Rock and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies (University of Rochester Press, 1995), 402-424. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAnalysis of songs from the film This is Spinal Tap, explored from the perspectives of stylistic competency and theories of humor.
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John Covach deposited “The Rutles and the Use of Specific Models in Musical Satire,” Indiana Theory Review 11 (1990): 119-44. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAnalysis of songs by the Rutles, explored from the perspectives of stylistic competency and theories of humor.
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John Covach deposited “Yes, ‘Close to the Edge,’ and the Boundaries of Rock,” in Covach and Boone, eds., Understanding Rock (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 3-31. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAnalysis of title track from Yes’s Close to the Edge album.
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Megan Lavengood started the topic Nominations, proposed bylaws changes, and chair's report in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoOur 2019 meeting was very successful (if somewhat dry)!
Please note that nominations for officers are now open, and you may nominate by filling out this form. Please also review the proposed bylaws again, and if you have any suggestions for changes, please bring it up in the comments of that collaborative document.
Nominations and changes to the…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood commented on the doc Working Draft — Proposed Bylaws in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHi all, I have made a few changes to reflect what we discussed in our meeting. I have also attempted to resolve the quorum issue we were struggling with. Quorum will only really matter for voting. Based on a suggestion from another interest group, I have added language that states that voting will remain open until 5% of the membership (based on…[Read more]
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Brad Osborn deposited Beyond Verse and Chorus: Experimental Song Forms in Post-Millennial Rock Music in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBrad Osborn. 2010. “Beyond Verse and Chorus: Experimental Song Forms in Post-Millennial Rock Music.” PhD Dissertation, University of Washington.
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Sean Atkinson deposited Deceptive love and denied endings: tropes in the music of Billy Joel in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe music of Billy Joel is long overdue for prolonged attention from the scholarly field. As Walter Everett has acknowledged (2000), Joel’s music is often more in line with common-practice systems than with popular genres, and when combined with his intuitive understanding of numerous popular styles, makes for a rich trove of harmonic interest. O…[Read more]
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Bryn Hughes deposited Musical Style Affects the Strength of Harmonic Expectancy. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoResearch in music perception has typically focused on common-practice music (tonal music from the Western European tradition, ca. 1750–1900) as a model of Western musical structure. However, recent research indicates that different styles within Western tonal music may follow distinct harmonic syntaxes. The current study investigated whether l…[Read more]
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Robert Komaniecki deposited Analyzing the Parameters of Flow in Rap Music in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoA dissertation describing analytical methods for engaging with “flow,” i.e. a rapper’s delivery of the lyrics.
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Sara Bowden deposited Narrative Transformation and Music in Mediatized Moral Space in Charlie Brooker’s Bandersnatch in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBlack Mirror’s Bandersnatch has brought interactive film to the forefront of ludo-entertainment discourse. Released through the Netflix entertainment platform in December 2018, the film features a non-linear script that the viewer guides through a series of choices. By virtue of design, Bandersnatch places a larger emphasis on narratological e…[Read more]
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Stefanie Acevedo uploaded the file: Pop progression Scavenger Hunt Assignment (Theory II) to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAssignment for theory II (diatonic harmony) to find pop progressions and annotate with timestamps, lyrics, formal markings.
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Stefanie Acevedo uploaded the file: Acevedo – Theory II Song Writing Final Project to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoFinal project assignment for theory II (diatonic harmony) course.
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