Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks

Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks is a collection of analytic essays on significant popular music tracks from a vast array of genres, featuring contributions from a roster of leading and emerging scholars from around the world.

Offering a diverse and unique selection of popular music tracks as case studies, this gathering of thoughtful essays illustrates a range of analytic approaches and perspectives that will be of great benefit to students and scholars in the fields of musicology, record production, popular music studies, and cultural theory. The contributors find unique ways to apply the analytic framework presented by William Moylan in Recording Analysis (Routledge, 2020), in order to illuminate how the record shapes the song.

Analyzing Recorded Music is a rich resource for students, researchers and scholars from a range of backgrounds in music and related fields.