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…
BOOM-DISC: Analysing Genre-Specific Discursive Tropes in Electronic Dance Music on Boomkat.com Abstract: This paper presents a mixed-methods discourse analysis of…
Rebetiko and blues: from Yiorgos Batis’s ‘O Boufetzis’ (1935) to Georges Pilali’s ‘Teketzis’ (1994) Abstract: Yiorgos Batis was a rebetiko…
An Ethnographic Approach To Analysing Vocal Production In UK Contemporary Popular Music Audio examples here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LRGyNoHQHhmACgE7N4WhHEj63gnnCjmX?usp=sharing Abstract This paper develops an innovative…
From Singing Cowboys to Kitchen Appliances: The Long Strange Trip of ‘You Are My Sunshine’ Abstract: ‘You Are My Sunshine’…
The Psychedelic Menagerie of Robyn Hitchcock Abstract Robyn Hitchcock is one of popular music’s most enduring artists. With a career…
“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…