Times A-Changin'

Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music

AvNancy Murphy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

In 1960s and 1970s singer-songwriter music, some artists used malleable metric settings alongside other features of self-expression in performance. This resulted in songs with extremes of self-expressive timing flexibility that cannot be accounted for using a single conception of meter. This book proposes a theory of flexible meter that recasts metric structure as encompassing the variety of metric scenarios presented by the self-expressive performance practice of singer-songwriters, from metric regularity to metric ambiguity, and vacillations between these two possibilities. Author Nancy Murphy explores performances by Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Paul Simon, and Cat Stevens to investigate the individual metric style of each artist and how their flexible metric techniques contribute to the self-expressive rhetoric of the singer-songwriter performance tradition.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-04
Mått:164 x 243 x 19 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:OXFORD STUDIES IN MUSIC THEORY
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197635216
Utmärkelser:Co-Winner, Emerging Scholar Book Award, Society for Music Theory

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Nancy Murphy is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, previously teaching at the University of Houston and the University of Chicago. Her research studies singer-songwriter music, metric flexibility, self-expression, vocal production, and transcription. She has published articles and reviews in Music Theory Spectrum, Music Analysis, and Music Theory Online and serves on the editorial boards of Music Theory Online, Indiana Theory, and Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy (Associate Editor). She has reviewed journal submission for multiple peer-reviewed publications including Music Theory Spectrum, Popular Music, Music Theory Online, Analytical Approaches to World Music, Engaging Students, and Indiana Theory Review.

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AbstractTable of ContentsList of Figures and CaptionsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: The Self Expressive Rhetoric of Flexible MeterSelf-Expressive FeaturesFlexible Meter and "The Fiddle and the Drum"Self-Expression and the Singer-SongwriterExpectations for Singer-Songwriter MusicBob Dylan and The Folk RevivalFlexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music Chapter 2: The Theory of Flexible MeterTypes of Flexible MeterRegular MeterReinterpreted MeterLost MeterAmbiguous MeterMetric Potential Chapter 3: Regular and Reinterpreted MeterRegular MeterReinterpreted MeterJoni Mitchell's Rhapsodic SentimentsPaul Simon: Reinterpreted Meter Expressing Enigmatic LyricsCat Stevens's IntrospectionA Closer Look: Joni Mitchell's "Lesson in Survival" Chapter 4: Self-Expressive Innovations: Lost MeterBob Dylan's "Only a Pawn in Their Game"Cat Stevens's "Time"Joni Mitchell's "Blue" Chapter 5: Intensifying "Imperfection": Ambiguous MeterBob Dylan's "Down the Highway"Bob Dylan's "Restless Farewell"Joni Mitchell's "The Fiddle and the Drum"Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Sir Patrick Spens" Chapter 6: What Happens Next? Self-Expressive Flexible MeterBeyond 1982Future Singer-SongwritersBuffy Sainte-Marie's "My Country" (1966)"My Country" (1966, Rainbow Quest)"My Country" (2017, Medicine Songs) Conclusion: Flexible Meter as Self-Expression Index