On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements

Introduction; Nick Braae and Kai Arne Hansen
Section I: Broad Strokes1. Scratching the Surface: Texts and Textures in Music Studies-or, Musicology without Music; Kyle Devine2. From Music Analysis to Narrative Reading: A Case Study of Recorded Popular Song; Alex C. Harden3. Kristeva and Popular Music; Nathan Wiseman-Trowse4. The Shape of the Voice: Analyzing Vocal Gestures in Irish Traditional Music and Popular Song; Bláithín Duggan5. It's a Dark Philosophy: The Weeknd, Intermediality, and the Aestheticization of Provocative Themes; Kai Arne Hansen
Section II: Second Takes6. Treating Cultural Trauma with Music: The Representation of War in the Music of Bruce Springsteen; Susanna Välimäki7. Linear Temporality in Popular Song; Nick Braae8. "To Prepare a Face to Meet the Faces that you Meet": The Instrumental Retrowave Persona; Andrei Sora9. Electric Affinities: Wagner, Hendrix, and the Thingness of Sound; Erik Steinskog
Section III: Entanglements10. Timbre, Genre, and Polystylism in Video Game Music; Megan Lavengood11. A Musical Exploration of Incongruity and its Humorous Effects; Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen12. The Empowerment of the Listener in Kendrick Lamar's "Backseat Freestyle"; Steven Gamble13. Psychedelic Ways of Listening: A Gothic Case Study; Claire Rebecca Bannister14. Taken by Strum: Ukulele Jamming as Musical Experience; Matthew BannisterAfterword; Allan F. Moore