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Analysing Music: Image, Sound and Text

Machin, David 2010. Analysing Music: Image, Sound and Text. London: Sage.

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Abstract

Popular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. Like language these elements can be used to communicate complex cultural ideas, values, concepts and identities. Analysing Popular Music is a lively look at the semiotic resources found in the sounds, visuals and words that comprise the 'code book' of popular music. It explains exactly how popular music comes to mean so much. Packed with examples, exercises and a glossary, this book provides the reader with the knowledge and skills they need to carry out their own analyses of songs, soundtracks, lyrics and album covers. Written for students with no prior musical knowledge, Analysing Popular Music is the perfect toolkit for students in sociology, media and communication studies to analyse, understand - and celebrate - popular music.

Item Type: Book
Book Type: Authored Book
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Journalism, Media and Culture
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
M Music and Books on Music > M Music
P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Publisher: Sage
ISBN: 9781848600225
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Last Modified: 19 Mar 2016 22:11
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/7082

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