Analysing Popular Music

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p><strong>Analysing Popular Music</strong> 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.</p><p>Written for students with no prior musical knowledge<strong> Analysing Popular Music</strong> is the perfect toolkit for students in sociology media and communication studies to analyse understand - and celebrate - popular music.</p>