John Covach
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John Covach deposited “Jazz-Rock? Rock-Jazz? Stylistic Crossover in Late-1970s American Progressive Rock,” in W. Everett, ed., Rock Music: Critical Essays on Composition, Performance, Analysis, and Reception (Garland Publishing, 1999), 113-34. Reprinted in the second edition (2007). on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
An exploration of jazz-rock fusion in the 1970s.
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John Covach deposited “From Craft to Art: Formal Structure in the Music of the Beatles,” in Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four, ed. Ken Womack and Todd F. Davis (SUNY Press, 2006), 37-53. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
An exploration of how the Beatles’ use of form can be used to indicate the emergence of an “artist” aesthetic in the band’s music in the 1960s.
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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. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
An 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 “Form in Rock Music: A Primer,” in Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis, ed. D. Stein (Oxford University Press, 2005), 65-76. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
A 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. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
An 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. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
An examination of American progressive rock in the 1980s and 90s.
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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. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
A discussion of the relationship of popular music within the context of musical scholarship.
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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. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
An 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 “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. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
Analysis 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. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
Analysis 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. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
Analysis if title track from Yes’s Close to the Edge album.