Embodied Expression in Popular Music: A Theory of Musical Gesture and Agency

by Timothy Koozin

Theory in popular music has historically tended to approach musical processes of rhythm, harmony, counterpoint, and form as abstractions, without very directly engaging the intimate connection between the performer and instrument in popular music performance. Embodied Expression in Popular Music illuminates under-researched aspects of music theory in popular music studies by situating musical analysis in a context of embodied movement in vocal and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197692982
• ISBN13: 9780197692981
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages