“It’s Fan-Tas-Tic”: New Approaches to Interpreting Un-Quantized Rhythmic Elements of Hip-Hop Production in the “Post-Dilla” Era Abstract:The late James DeWitt…
‘Something in the way [they sing]’ Paralanguage and The Beatles Abstract This paper identifies and analyses paralinguistic intonation in popular…
Analysing the Pop Persona. An Exploration of a New Interdisciplinary Approach to the Analysis of Popular Music as Performance Abstract: Performative…
Matrices of “Love and Theft”: Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Gendered and Racial Capital abstract The ideas for this paper…
Tight Verses and Loose Choruses: The Shaping of the Metric ‘Pocket’ Across Pop Forms Abstract: This paper analyses the construction…
Not Just an ‘Extra-musical’ Scandal: A Musical Dialectic in and through the Sex Pistols’ Recordings Abstract: One of the first…
Laurie Anderson’s transmedia storytelling Abstract: This paper explores transmedia storytelling (Jenkins) in the work of Anderson, primarily focusing on the…
Fertilising Deaths. Deconstructing Prog’s Death to Understand Post-Prog Abstract: Progressive rock has always been seen as a mainly British phenomenon:…
Elvis are you out there?’: narrative voice and symbolism in Kate Bush’s ‘King of the Mountain’ Abstract After more than…
Metre meets metre – how do we hear, analyse and listen to rap flows? Abstract: In rap music, there is…