Analyzing Recorded Music

<p><em>Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks</em> is a collection of essays dedicated to the study of recorded popular music with the aim of exploring how the record shapes the song (Moylan <i>Recording Analysis</i> 2020) from a variety of perspectives. Introduced with a Foreword by Paul Théberge the distinguished editorial team has brought together a group of reputable international contributors to write about a rich collection of recordings.</p><p>Examining a diverse set of songs from a range of genres and points in history (spanning the years 1936-2020) the authors herein illuminate unique attributes of the selected tracks and reveal how the recording develops the expressive content of song performance.</p><p><i>Analyzing Recorded Music</i> will interest all those who study popular music cultural studies and the musicology of record production as well as popular music listeners.</p>