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John Covach deposited “Form in Rock Music: A Primer,” in Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis, ed. D. Stein (Oxford University Press, 2005), 65-76. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoA survey of song form in rock music, focusing on music from the 1955-1990 period.
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John Covach deposited “Pangs of History in Late 1970s Rock,” in Allan Moore, ed., Analyzing Popular Music (Cambridge University Press, 2003): 173-95. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAn examination of new wave music in the late 1970s.
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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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John Covach's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
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John Covach deposited “George Harrison, Songwriter,” in M. Osteen, ed., Part of Everything: The Beatles’ White Album at Fifty (University of Michigan Press, 2019), 177-96. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This chapter chronicles George Harrison’s songwriting during the Beatles years.
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John Covach deposited “Afterword,” in M. Osteen, ed., Part of Everything: The Beatles’ White Album at Fifty (University of Michigan Press, 2019), 263-69. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This afterword discusses the Beatles White Album and the essays contained in this volume.
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John Covach deposited “Analyzing Texture in Rock Music: Stratification, Coordination, Position, and Perspective,” in Pop weiter denken: Neue Anstöße aus Jazz Studies, Philosophie, Musiktheorie und Geschichte, Beiträge zur Popularmusikforschung 44, ed. Ralf von Appen and André Doehring (Transcript Verlag, 2018), 53-72. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This chapter posits models for musical texture and positional listening and analysis.
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John Covach deposited “Yes, the Psychedelic-Symphonic Cover, and ‘Every Little Thing’,” in C. Scotto, K. Smith, and J. Brackett, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (Routledge, 2018), 277-90. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This chapter explores the history of the “cover,” distinguishing between covers and versions and focusing on the psychedelic symphonic cover version in the music of Vanilla Fudge and Yes.
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John Covach deposited “High Brow, Low Brow, Knot Now, Know How,” in C. Rodriguez, ed., Coming of Age: Teaching and Learning Music in Academia (Maize Books, 2017), 313-33. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This chapter explores the role of popular music in music curricula, considering it in terms of the flattening of the lowbrow/highbrow distinction in American culture and academic culture.
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John Covach deposited “The Way We Were: Rethinking the Popular in a Flat World,” Analitica/Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale, 2016, vol. 1/2, 59-72. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This article considers the historical rise of the high/low brow distinction in American culture since the late 19th century, and posits that the emergence of digital technology and the internet have created something more like a “flat world” in which the low/high distinction is transformed.
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John Covach deposited “Rock Me, Maestro,” Chronicle of Higher Education (February 2, 2015) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This essay considers the role of popular music in college music curricula.
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John Covach deposited “To MOOC or Not to MOOC?” Music Theory Online 19/3 (September 2013) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
The article discusses the author’s experience teaching MOOCs for Coursera.org.
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John Covach deposited “The Hippie Aesthetic: Cultural Positioning and Musical Ambition in Early Progressive Rock,” in Composition and Experimentation in British Rock 1966–1976, a special issue of Philomusica Online (2007); reprinted in The Ashgate Library of Essays on Popular Music: Rock, ed. Mark Spicer (Ashgate publishing, 2012), 65-75. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This article outlines the “hippie aethetic” as a way of unifying rock music from the 1960s and 70s.
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John Covach deposited “Leiber and Stoller, the Coasters, and the ‘Dramatic AABA’ Form,” in Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Rock Music, ed. Covach and Spicer (University of Michigan Press, 2010)., 1-17. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
An examination of how the music of the Coasters, written by Leiber and Stoller, invert the rhetorical emphasis of the bridge section in AABA form.
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