Analysing Popular Music
Image, Sound and Text
- David Machin - Örebro University, Sweden
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.
An excellent book which provides in-depth examples of how to 'do' textual analysis with popular music texts. Written in a clear and engaging manner throughout and supported with good examples, this book should prove to be a valuable resource for tutors, researchers and students working in the field of popular music studies.
